Cell phones: reviews blog

Here’s a cell phone app that could actually save lives: AT&T Inc. is introducing technology that lets patients monitor their heartbeat and automatically transfer the data to their cardiologists using Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones.

The service, offered by MedNet Healthcare Technologies, allows customers who are in AT&T’s network range or roaming areas to send the information to a central monitoring center, which then relays the information to their doctor. The service is available for a monthly fee, and doctors must be signed up to use it.

Patients using an older service offered by MedNet have to call a toll-free number and then put their monitoring device near a landline receiver in order to transmit their data to the center.

MedNet also will use AT&T voice services so cardiac technicians and physicians can quickly contact patients if necessary. The service will be available April 21.

This article appeared on page C - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Today, Fayetteville Christian School takes a big step toward curbing cell phone abuse among students.

Students win, although they probably don’t feel that way.

Going forward, teachers and staff will confiscate cell phones they find on students and hold the devices until the end of the school day.

I hope more schools follow Fayetteville Christian’s lead.

School Headmaster Tammi Peters says students were caught twice this year texting test answers.

But even outside of cheating, the new policy is a common sense way of stopping students from texting during class and ignoring their lessons. Some FCS children claim that they will be bored or will fall asleep if they are separated from their phones.

To me, that’s a risk well worth taking. What is more likely is that they will pay better attention in class.

Some people will no doubt claim that children need their phones in case of emergency.

Sorry, no sale.

First, recall that the United States experienced hundreds of years of private and public education before the cell phone’s invention. This may seem hard to believe, but I’m not foolin’ — check Wikipedia.

In all that time, there must have been, conservatively, several dozen emergencies. Somehow, parents were still able to reach their children.

Secondly, school is arguably one of the easiest places to reach your child, provided she’s not playing hooky. Simply call the front desk and let the magic happen.

All that said, I’d be the first to admit the FCS policy at first blush comes off as a mite heavy-handed.

But the staff should not be blamed. For blame, parents need only check a mirror.

Parents are the first teachers. Children learn boundaries on using cell phones from their parents.

Parents pay the bills, including the cell phone bills. They set the rules.

Back in my day, if I had been caught texting in class, my parents’ punishment would have been swift. This is assuming I’d have been allowed a phone in the first place.

“I’ve told my mom to take my texting away,” FCS sophomore Wally Trevino told a reporter. “It only gets me into trouble.”

Now, Wally was probably joking, at least some. But there’s a kernel of truth in his words that apply to many of his peers.

Peters’ action comes when society seems to be fighting back against cell phone abuse. I wrote on Sunday about local movie theaters’ cracking down on phones. State legislators are considering at least two bills that target talking and texting while driving.

I wish that we could all show a modicum of restraint with our cell phones, but as with alcohol, some people cannot.

I applaud the headmaster and her staff for standing in the gap where more parents should be.
Columnist Myron B. Pitts can be reached at pittsm@fayobserver.com or 486-3559.

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