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Century High School - Alternative SchoolPrincipal: James Martin
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What Parents Need To Know
We’ve all seen the commercial where a mother asks her daughter who she’s texting, and the young girl responds, “IDK my BFF, Jill”. It’s a cute commercial, and most parents can easily decipher the “code”, i.e. IDK (I Don’t Know) and BFF (Best Friends Forever). Those are harmless and fun. But there are more ominous codes being used by kids while they communicate online or in text messages. Here are some sobering statistics.
95% of parents didn't recognize the lingo kids use to let people know that their parents are watching
89% of sexual solicitations are made in either chat rooms or Instant Messages
20% of children age 10-17 have received unwanted sexual solicitations online; that's one out of five kids
75% of youth who received an online sexual solicitation did not tell a parent
4,000,000 children are posting content to the Web everyday
15,000,000 youth use Instant messaging
To help you protect your kids and keep you up-to-date on the current abbreviations/code, the website netlingo.com lists the Top 50 Acronyms Parents Need To Know and the 50 Most Commonly Used Text Terms. Here’s a sample:
