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Students Taught Naughty Text Messaging as Homework

by Tom Conlon on September 10, 2007 at 10:13 AM

Students Taught Naughty Text Messaging as Homework

Parents are used to monitoring what their kids watch on TV, what video games they play and where they go online. But, who thought you'd ever need a V-chip for homework?

The parents of Jackson Middle School sixth graders in Grand Prairie, Texas, received a shock recently when the kids came home with a rather naughty math assignment. For homework, they'd been asked by the teacher to decode twenty popular text-messaging abbreviations including some not-so-innocent ones such as POS (Parent Over Shoulder) and KPC (Keeping Parents Clueless). There was even at least one overtly sexual abbreviation: NIFOC, which stands for "Nude in Front of the Computer" -- no doubt a favorite amongst the 'To Catch a Predator' set.

For help with the assignment, students were directed to a Web site that included other naughty abbreviations, including GYPO (Get Your Pants Off) and IWSN (I Want Sex Now). As for what any of this has to do with math class, we're at a loss.

Though parents want the teacher taken out of the classroom immediately, the school district has said it has spoken to the teacher about the issue, but would not comment on any further disciplinary action.

Are you a parent looking for help decoding your kids' secret language? Check out this online dictionary, which is filled with more abbreviations than you could ever imagine. Our favorite: AAAAA, which stands for 'American Association Against Acronym Abuse.'

From Textually.org

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Tags: acronym, naughty, text, text messaging, TextMessaging, txt

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