I definitely agree with what you've said on this. The philosophy of convenience has a very dangerous undertone that I don't think we're properly acknowledging. Texting is one of the more overt ways that it is sort of seeping through the cracks. However, in regards to education it isn't all bad, look at YouTube for example and even this platform. The only way these two are possible is because of the culmination of the philosophy of convenience.

But, you cannot fix a problem without properly acknowledging there is one, and that's where I think the fundamental issue lies in the younger generation. I know a lot of people that text in a diluted fashion think it is fine, not even realizing the correlation between texting and their inability to produce quality writing. For me I often text in the same fashion as everyone else but I also write nearly every day, or read everyday, exercising the brain muscles you neglect by writing in the aforementioned way.

As for how to solve the issue though, I don't think it lies so much in the issue itself but more in why the issue exists in the first place. It's said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, and although that isn't exactly relevant in this context, I'd like to think the same reason for that is the same reason people write poorly i.e. you are what you surround yourself with.

What I mean by that is, I think the issue is the lack of reading often done in schools, and mostly in people as a whole during the fundamental periods of development in school. When you surround yourself with diluted text and BuzzFeed articles with snippets of equally diluted information conveyed in the apropos watered down text, you never get a taste of the authentic writing that created the very ground on which we stand, kind of metaphorically speaking, kind of not. So perhaps a different approach is necessary for the recalcitrant students that cannot learn to capitalize their I's and beginnings of their sentences, because simply telling them it's wrong isn't as effective as showing them it is. I was reading as early as I could, around 3 or so. Then I took it upon myself in the early grades of elementary to do it myself, and from then on I've always tried to surround myself in quality writing, so my standards don't degenerate. But it would be very hard to hold myself to a standard I didn't full grasp, or wasn't fully articulated, so maybe reading could help counteract the devolution of our literary abilities as a whole.

At least that's my take on it! Really enjoyed your article. :)