Texting Codes with Kids

The funniest thing happened about two weeks ago in my classroom. I had a student get caught throwing pencils -not the funny part :) up in the air. When my teacher assistant asked him why was he doing such a thing he simply responded, "IDK". My teacher assistant became quite flustered and decided to get me, not knowing what "IDK" meant. She filled me on the incident at hand at told that the problem now was the student's response. Immediately I began thinking that the child defiantly remained silent or made a smart -alleck comment to her. Thats when she blurted out, "He said IDK. Is that some type of new language?" After laughing out loud-LOL, I reassured her that it was a new language and I would handle the situation from there. I then called my little turkey over to my desk. I just looked at the seven year old and said, "IDK, huh?" He looked up at me with his bright almond shaped eyes and said, " I was JK!"