T-Mobile Looks Like the Bad Guy at School Board Meeting

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UPDATE T-Mobile walked out of a Wyandotte, MI, school board meeting last Tuesday. WJBK-TV reported that the carrier’s representatives “bailed on concerned parents” without taking questions on the controversy surrounding cellular antenna panels attached to a smoke stack high above Washington Elementary school.

As the cameras of the Fox Detroit affiliate followed the reps into the hallway outside the meeting, one mother called out, “This is our chance to talk to you, stand before us and answer our questions. We’re not going to hurt you, trust me. We just want to talk to you guys because we’ve been waiting to.” 

Although the T-Mobile representatives didn’t say why they left, a video shows them leaving a room filled potentially past fire code capacity and you can hear one of them saying to the others, “We are trapped.” They might have been remembering that early in March a meeting between parents and school board members resulted in police being called to break up the session as parents aggressively voiced their concerns over the antennas, Inside Towers reported.

As the meeting resumed without T-Mobile, an emotional mother cried out that her son who is in trauma therapy for other issues is now “terrified” about going into the school because of his health concerns about the antennas. “You’re going to just throw those antennas on our school like we are test animals and see what happens to us,” the mother said. 

It would appear that the parents are going to continue to fight the installation, reported WJBK-TV. Lawyer and parent Joshua Castmore has started a GoFundMe page to fund the legal fight, although it only has $3,776 in donations so far, compared with its goal of $40,000. 

“The health, safety, and wellbeing of our students, staff, and surrounding community were NOT considered in our school District’s decision to enter into the T-Mobile lease. AT BEST, we don’t know what we don’t know about the adverse health effects of radio frequency waves of 5G cell towers,” Castmore wrote on the website.

By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Editor

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