airplane noise can impair young students

New research shows that airplane noise can impair reading and memory
abilities of young students.

A team of researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast
studied 50 children (ages 9-10 years old) who attended James Graham
Elementary in Newark, California. The researchers found that as
airplane noise around a school increased, students' reading
comprehension scores decreased. Airplane noise was also related to
lower scores on a memory recognition test. There was no relationship
between road (cars, trucks, motorcycles) traffic noise and reading or
memory test scores and the data were not related to the socioeconomic
status of students.

These results suggest that airplane noise may affect the ability of
children to learn in school. The scientists believe that airplane noise
may distract students from their schoolwork and lead to problems with
reading and memory. For example, children might tune out unwanted noise
such as that from an airplane, but in doing so, they will also pay less
attention to their teacher. Planes flying over a school may also
disrupt a teacher's ability to communicate with students.

Effective ways to fight airplane noise are needed. An obvious solution
would be to shut down the Palo Alto Airport.

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New research shows that airplane noise can impair reading and memory
abilities of young students.


This is old news. Also, if you are going to talk about a report then you
need to provide a link to the report so others can determine if you are
correctly reading the report.

In article . com,
wrote:

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These results suggest that airplane noise may affect the ability of
children to learn in school. The scientists believe that airplane noise
may distract students from their schoolwork and lead to problems with
reading and memory. For example, children might tune out unwanted noise
such as that from an airplane, but in doing so, they will also pay less
attention to their teacher. Planes flying over a school may also
disrupt a teacher's ability to communicate with students.

I know that airplane noise interrupts me at work.

I hear the plane and want to go flying!!!!



Effective ways to fight airplane noise are needed. An obvious solution
would be to shut down the Palo Alto Airport.

An obvious solution would be to move the d*** school

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

interesting that it took a study from 4 countries outside the US
maybe because the US study did not agree with the outcome desired by those
wanting the airport closed?

Move the school... and if this one is so close to the airport.. make it an
aviation school

BT

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New research shows that airplane noise can impair reading and memory
abilities of young students.

A team of researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast
studied 50 children (ages 9-10 years old) who attended James Graham
Elementary in Newark, California. The researchers found that as
airplane noise around a school increased, students' reading
comprehension scores decreased. Airplane noise was also related to
lower scores on a memory recognition test. There was no relationship
between road (cars, trucks, motorcycles) traffic noise and reading or
memory test scores and the data were not related to the socioeconomic
status of students.

These results suggest that airplane noise may affect the ability of
children to learn in school. The scientists believe that airplane noise
may distract students from their schoolwork and lead to problems with
reading and memory. For example, children might tune out unwanted noise
such as that from an airplane, but in doing so, they will also pay less
attention to their teacher. Planes flying over a school may also
disrupt a teacher's ability to communicate with students.

Effective ways to fight airplane noise are needed. An obvious solution
would be to shut down the Palo Alto Airport.

the same can be said for saw mills, construction sites or major highways..
don't build schools next to loud noisy polluting cars..

BT

wrote in message
ups.com...
New research shows that airplane noise can impair reading and memory
abilities of young students.

A team of researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast
studied 50 children (ages 9-10 years old) who attended James Graham
Elementary in Newark, California. The researchers found that as
airplane noise around a school increased, students' reading
comprehension scores decreased. Airplane noise was also related to
lower scores on a memory recognition test. There was no relationship
between road (cars, trucks, motorcycles) traffic noise and reading or
memory test scores and the data were not related to the socioeconomic
status of students.

These results suggest that airplane noise may affect the ability of
children to learn in school. The scientists believe that airplane noise
may distract students from their schoolwork and lead to problems with
reading and memory. For example, children might tune out unwanted noise
such as that from an airplane, but in doing so, they will also pay less
attention to their teacher. Planes flying over a school may also
disrupt a teacher's ability to communicate with students.

Effective ways to fight airplane noise are needed. An obvious solution
would be to shut down the Palo Alto Airport.

In article . com,
wrote:

New research shows that airplane noise can impair reading and memory
abilities of young students.

A team of researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast
studied 50 children (ages 9-10 years old) who attended James Graham
Elementary in Newark, California. The researchers found that as
airplane noise around a school increased, students' reading
comprehension scores decreased. Airplane noise was also related to
lower scores on a memory recognition test. There was no relationship
between road (cars, trucks, motorcycles) traffic noise and reading or
memory test scores and the data were not related to the socioeconomic
status of students.

These results suggest that airplane noise may affect the ability of
children to learn in school. The scientists believe that airplane noise
may distract students from their schoolwork and lead to problems with
reading and memory. For example, children might tune out unwanted noise
such as that from an airplane, but in doing so, they will also pay less
attention to their teacher. Planes flying over a school may also
disrupt a teacher's ability to communicate with students.

Effective ways to fight airplane noise are needed. An obvious solution
would be to shut down the Palo Alto Airport.


The studies are only for very large, commercial, airports and have
absolutely NO relationship to small, GA airports. The above posting is
just another example of how far the anti-GA forces will stretch the
truth, and outright lie, to bolster their agenda.

An obvious solution is for the anti-GA types to stop lying and
exaggerating and to say simply that they hate and envy pilots and
anybody else who appears to be doing better than themselves.

Is this the same group that did the Di-hidrogen Oxide study? Or the one
that found that saliva is deadly when consumed at small doses over long
enough periods of time?

Any claim, study, or proof that X impacts Y is meaningless unless some
quantitative relationship is shown: just how much of X does just how
much impact to Y.

The study may have had this quantitative data, but the post didn't.
Therefore it cannot be concluded from the post that the impact is
relevant. Assuming it was a good study (and did have the data), the
omission of this information from the post is evidence that the impact
is =not= relevant, but the poster does not want to give that away since
it undermines the alarm the poster would otherwise create.

Therefore, I dismiss it totally.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Not to mention that I'd bet you $10 that you'd be hard pressed to find a GA
airport that was built near a school. My experience has been that the
airport was in existence for 30 years and then they put the school 1/4 mile
from the threshold.

jf


"Jose" wrote in message
...
Is this the same group that did the Di-hidrogen Oxide study? Or the one
that found that saliva is deadly when consumed at small doses over long
enough periods of time?

Any claim, study, or proof that X impacts Y is meaningless unless some
quantitative relationship is shown: just how much of X does just how much
impact to Y.

The study may have had this quantitative data, but the post didn't.
Therefore it cannot be concluded from the post that the impact is
relevant. Assuming it was a good study (and did have the data), the
omission of this information from the post is evidence that the impact is
=not= relevant, but the poster does not want to give that away since it
undermines the alarm the poster would otherwise create.

Therefore, I dismiss it totally.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Not to mention that I'd bet you $10 that you'd be hard pressed to find a GA
airport that was built near a school. My experience has been that the
airport was in existence for 30 years and then they put the school 1/4 mile
from the threshold.

Not hard pressed at all. My home airport fills the bill. From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut

A 60 acre (243,000 m²) tract near the Danbury Fairgrounds known as Tucker's Field was purchased by local pilots in 1928, and leased to the town. This became an airport, which is now Danbury Municipal Airport (ICAO airport code: KDXR).

From http://www.woosterschool.org/oncampus/history/

So the charter of Wooster School was registered with the State of Connecticut in November, 1925, and the school opened the following fall.

I bet a lot of places are like that. Both the school and the airport go
way back. Schools were invented before airplanes, so if they both go
back far enough, the school will win.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

But I can give you 15 for every one you name. Granted the school and the
airport you mentioned are older than the average, but within 30 miles of me
I can name several airports (MRC, 2M2, heck BNA for that matter) that were
all built "in the boonies" so they wouldn't bother anyone. Now the urban
creep has caught them and they're facing the noise complaints that we've all
seen before.

Note to self: If there is an airport next door to the house I'm thinking
about buying, it's MY FAULT if I buy the house and don't like airplane
noise.

jf


"Jose" wrote in message
...
Not to mention that I'd bet you $10 that you'd be hard pressed to find a
GA airport that was built near a school. My experience has been that the
airport was in existence for 30 years and then they put the school 1/4
mile from the threshold.

Not hard pressed at all. My home airport fills the bill. From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut

A 60 acre (243,000 m²) tract near the Danbury Fairgrounds known as
Tucker's Field was purchased by local pilots in 1928, and leased to the
town. This became an airport, which is now Danbury Municipal Airport
(ICAO airport code: KDXR).

From http://www.woosterschool.org/oncampus/history/

So the charter of Wooster School was registered with the State of
Connecticut in November, 1925, and the school opened the following fall.

I bet a lot of places are like that. Both the school and the airport go
way back. Schools were invented before airplanes, so if they both go back
far enough, the school will win.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.