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Randall Jeppesen ReportingThe national spelling bee and recent movies about the subject have brought more attention to spelling as a whole. Some are worried, though, that all the time kids spend texting and chatting online might be causing kids to become spelling impaired.
It's not hard to spot students sending a text message as they take breaks from classes. It has some wondering if all the abbreviations and texting cause problems on classroom papers.
"I've seen absolutely no difference. It's still 'I' before 'E'," says Bingham High English teacher Jeff Arbogast.
Arbogast says kids text abbreviated words, but also type out in long form more now than ever before. He says he does have one issue with texting.
"When it becomes a mania is an incredible difficulty because it takes away from their educational time."
Arbogast says that in over 27 years of teaching, the amount of spelling mistakes in papers has remained about the same.
