Text Speak

For my optional blog I'd like to write about text speak. Where I work we are selling little booklets with abbreviations and other text speak words in it. It terrifys me that students may write like that in formal writing assignments! I think that Language Arts teachers should explicitly teach the difference between informal and formal writing so that students can learn when it is (and is not) acceptable to use such language.

It seems like commonsense but I think it would benefit students!