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Thursday
Oct212010

Ignorance as a luxury

I'm going to call my next book "First World Problems". This story is going to be in the introduction:

A school in southern Ontario is the first in Canada to ban Wi-Fi over health concerns, despite Health Canada's assurances it's perfectly safe. Parents at St. Vincent Euphrasia elementary school in Meaford, Ont., voted to ban Wi-Fi transmitters, after some students reported feeling ill after they were installed.

"After learning the whole story about how risky WiFi is, parents voted to protect their children's health and plug the computers back in with hardwires," said Andrew Couper, a member of the elected school council. "This is something every school council across Canada should be questioning."

What every school council across Canada should be questioning is this: at what point does being a moron count as parental neglect? At what point should the state step in and take these children from their parents?

(Thanks)