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A group of Barrie-area parents want their children’s schools to turn off wireless Internet before they head back to school next month.

They’re fearing the technology is making their kids sick.

The parents say their children are showing a host of symptoms ranging from headaches and dizziness to nausea and even racing heart rates.

They believe the Wi-Fi setup in their kids’ elementary schools may be the problem, adding the kids are fine when they aren’t in school.

The parents say they can’t get the Simcoe County school board or anyone else to take their concerns seriously.

Rodney Palmer of the Simcoe County Safe School Committee says the symptoms have been reported in 14 schools in the Barrie area since the board decided to go wireless.

Susan Clarke, a former research consultant to the Harvard School of Public Health, says Wi-Fi technology alters physiological functioning and can cause neurological and cardiac symptoms.

Clarke says there are statistics that show young children are going to absorb much more radiation than older children and adults because of their thinner skulls.