Math teacher gives kids questionable SMS homework assignment
A Grand Prairie, Texas teacher is in hot water with parents after a homework assignment doled out to his students this week. Rather than your typical 2 + 2 exercises, he went high tech and had them decode 20 text message abbreviations. Unfortunately, the exercise went pear-shaped when parents of the grade six students noticed things like NIFOC (Nude In Front Of the Computer) and IWSN (I Want Sex Now) was in their evening duties -- at least this teacher wasn't using SMS to buy pot. We dig tech like no other, but, those might have been omitted and replaced with things like LOL (Laugh Out Loud) or TTIAB (Talk to you In A Bit). The teacher now waits for the school district to make up its mind on his fate -- though we'd hazard a guess he's likely learned his lesson.[Via textually.org]
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derX @ Sep 10th 2007 9:37PM
Wouldn't it be ironic of he had included:
SOL.
derX @ Sep 10th 2007 9:43PM
Hrm, a question mark was supposed to be there in place of that period, but, hey, in the spirit of the grammatically blasphemous IM, let's leave like that!
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Seriously, what was this guy thinking. And what happened to the days when people actually used to do, I don't know.....math, in math class?
Owen V @ Sep 10th 2007 11:22PM
ok, in his defense nifoc has always meant NOT in front of the computer to me. I have nothing to say about iwsn though
CJ @ Sep 10th 2007 11:24PM
I can only come up with one explanation (and even this doesn't justify giving this to kids as homework). We teach *parents* this particular set of IM acronyms to watch out for if they see their kids start using them (like PBB or PAW, along with F2F). At worst, this would be an exercise for parents to do with their kids. Giving them to kids as homework is like giving them the gun and helping them point it at their foot.
Cory @ Sep 10th 2007 11:27PM
These seem like the kinds of things a pedophile would hope that their newest "friend" would know. This may have turned out much, much worse than a questionable assignment.
Adrian @ Sep 10th 2007 11:32PM
Getting him beacause of IWSN or NIFOC, I agree. But these parents are suprised about parent over shoulder? What the hell? I've been using 9 place of that since grade 2. These parents have no idea, do they?
Darkest Daze @ Sep 11th 2007 1:12AM
The assignment also included all of the girls sending the answers directly to his cell phone. Extra credit included sending a picture depicting the abbreviation.