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Many schools have been encouraging teachers to allow students to turn in their homework and/or essays with text talk. My mother is a teacher in a middle school and has had many students attempt to turn in school work with text talk on it. She promptly hands it back and gives them zeros, of course. But she gets a lot of grief from those students, saying that they saw on the news that so and so school lets their students turn in their work with text talk.
What is your opinion of this?

Personally, I'm appalled. I am outright disgusted that instutions meant to better our youth's minds would encourage illiteracy amoungst them. The disregard to gammar and spelling and basic English syntax is just.... it's appalling, is what it is!
Anyways, discuss.
Text talk in schools...s**t like that.

Wait... Are you serious? Please tell me you're not.

Writing properly is a lost art. I call it a lost art because so little people seem to be able to do it anymore. Look at books! You don't read books that have text talk in them. Why should essays be so crappy nowadays? Just imagine an assignment when you need to write a letter:

"hey Amy, whaazup? hey look i got into a lil trouble. can u meet me @ 2 at my place? thx cya!"

...*screams* Ah!! No! No! No! I refuse! Ahhh! Writing is fun if you can pick the topic. Then, you can have fun writing about it. I know. I tried. It's not impossible. >.< School makes it boring sometimes.

i can't stand it when people speak in text talk let alone write in it X(

I hate when people turn in papers with text talk. Personally, I'm very formal when I text anyway. I can't stand informality. My mom is also a teacher, and she would be completely disgusted if she got papers like that. My English teacher hates when people use text talk on assignments. It's completely idiotic that schools would encourage text talk. That pisses me off so much. Schools are supposed to push students forward with learning, not hold them back with encouraging text talk. Completely sick.

I've done my best to distance myself from text talk and to my eternal gratitude, my school is helping. Text talk is the best avenue to a failing grade and should be reserved for text messages only.
Maybe it's because I am possibly the only teenager left in North America who doesn't have a cell phone, but I can't see how speed outclasses intelligence. (Huh... it seems we have this same problem in drivers...)

Pay attention in your English classes, kiddies: you might learn how to write properly and like a functioning member of society if you're not concentrating on that bloody phone.

As a college student, I find it irritating when some nub is hammering away on their damn phone while I'm trying to pay attention to the lecture. Its so disrespectful to the professor.

That's ridiculous. There's a time for talking like that, and it isn't at school. I abbreviate words and phrases when texting, but I know that when I'm at school, or when I'm doing anything where I'm trying to look professional, I can't write like that. And teachers shouldn't be allowing them to turn their work in like that. It's not going to help them when they're filling out job applications and won't get hired because they can't spell.