Falmouth High School -Sleep Deprivation Massachusetts

The Falmouth Public Schools created the Start Times Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to gain a full understanding of the district’s desire to alter school start time.

The task force is looking at the feasibility of changing start times in the Falmouth Public Schools

A local Falmouth newspaper is reporting "sleep deprivation" an issue for Falmouth High Students.

A state of deprivation means something is missing, and the situation is serious. If you're suffering from "sleep deprivation," you haven't slept in a long time.

Around two thirds of the high school students report being sleepy every day.

It's not know as of yet which students live near the wind turbines. The task force has amassed large amounts of data.

Falmouth is ground zero for poorly placed commercial wind turbines in the United States.

The task force should use the data to review where the students live in relationship to the wind turbines and does the operation of the wind turbines have a direct affect on the students at the high school.

Commercial wind turbine setbacks are near 2 miles now worldwide.

The Town of Falmouth in 2010 prior to construction of the turbines hid a noise warning letter from the public for five years that the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise. The town took a gamble and lost. They lost the health of up to 200 residential home owners and up to $300,000.00 every six months in litigation fees in eleven ongoing wind turbine lawsuits.

The first wind turbine noise complaints in North America, reported over 40 years ago, sound strikingly familiar today. The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) commissioned Dr. Neil Kelley discovered infra sound or what is called human annoyance.

Falmouth High School is in the vicinity of the two town owned wind turbines.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Christopher J. Muse issued a preliminary injunction against the night time operation of the wind turbines and found that the defendants in the case face “a substantial risk (that they) will suffer irreparable physical and psychological harm.

Falmouth Wind I is shut down 24/7 but Falmouth Wind II still operates during the day.

Falmouth residents for years have complained living near wind turbines complain of chronic sleep loss.

The local news media has determined the Start Times Task Force is reporting "sleep deprivation."

The condition of not having enough sleep; it can be either chronic or acute. A chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue and daytime sleepiness. It adversely affects the brain and cognitive function.

The same symptoms as those living around the wind turbines in Falmouth

The Town of Falmouth should consider shutting down Falmouth Wind II for a period of time to see if the sleep deprivation of the high school students stops.

Below is the link to the story about sleep deprivation at Falmouth High School -The local article omits anything that has to do with commercial wind turbines in Falmouth

The citizens of Falmouth have to ask what they are doing to themselves ?

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"Sleep Deprivation An Issue For High School Students"

• By ANDREA F. CARTER
• Oct 5, 2016
• http://www.capenews.net/falmouth/news/sleep-deprivation-an-issue-for-high-school-students/article_1f5a01a7-4af4-547b-aadb-ecc9383b61cc.html