Text Shortcuts.

Today in the Kansas City Star, I read an article about how text shortcuts "OMG", "R U busy?" "Wuz up" "lol" "jk"…you get the point…are showing up more and more in students' schoolwork. Duh. This would obviously happen due to the fact that we are a generation based on shortcuts and getting things faster and quicker. What surprised me about this article was that the teacher interviewed for it stated that he and his school and the parents are not worried about the fact that these shortcuts are showing up in schoolwork. I would have thought that this would be a much bigger deal, but apparently it's not. They say that the students say they still place the same value on writing and know how important it is to write correctly. I found this interesting because I thought that this would have been more of a concern.