Should children be allowed to receive marks for text message language use in an English exam?
No way, i believe its wrong to include slang in any form of writing because it leads to a lack of standards, it is after all an English exam, if you allow for text message language then you may as well allow for poor grammar and misspellings I use slang pretty much every day however i only do it vocally and personally i just feel wrong using words like “l8r” and “coz” simply because i know better, if schoolkids are using slang in exams then obviously the education system has failed and when they enter the workplace it will come back to haunt them if they even make it that far.
