Basically, kids aren't able to "code switch" -- shift between standard grammar and the abbreviations used in text messages, Sundar said. Those abbreviations have essentially become the words for them.

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Donna Fisher, resource teacher for English language arts for the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, has been creating rap songs — about 200 — for the past 20 years as a tool to teach middle ...