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Around the UK, learners have been calling out the words ““six-seven” during lessons in the most recent meme-based craze to sweep across classrooms.

Although some teachers have opted to patiently overlook the craze, some have embraced it. A group of instructors explain how they’re dealing.

‘I thought I had said something rude’

During September, I had been talking to my year 11 students about studying for their qualification tests in June. It escapes me specifically what it was in reference to, but I said something like “ … if you’re aiming for grades six, seven …” and the entire group started chuckling. It caught me entirely unexpectedly.

My first thought was that I’d made an allusion to an inappropriate topic, or that they detected an element of my accent that sounded funny. A bit annoyed – but genuinely curious and conscious that they weren’t malicious – I asked them to explain. Frankly speaking, the clarification they offered didn’t provide greater understanding – I remained with minimal understanding.

What might have made it especially amusing was the weighing-up movement I had performed during speaking. I later found out that this typically pairs with ““67”: I had intended it to help convey the action of me speaking my mind.

In order to end the trend I aim to mention it as frequently as I can. No approach reduces a trend like this more effectively than an teacher attempting to join in.

‘If you give oxygen to it, then it becomes an inferno’

Understanding it assists so that you can steer clear of just unintentionally stating remarks like “for example, there existed 6, 7 million unemployed people in Germany in 1933”. If the number combination is inevitable, maintaining a firm school behaviour policy and requirements on pupil behavior is advantageous, as you can sanction it as you would any additional disruption, but I haven’t actually needed to implement that. Guidelines are important, but if learners accept what the learning environment is implementing, they will become less distracted by the viral phenomena (especially in lesson time).

With sixseven, I haven’t sacrificed any lesson time, aside from an occasional raised eyebrow and saying ““correct, those are digits, good job”. When you provide attention to it, it transforms into a wildfire. I address it in the same way I would treat any other disruption.

There was the nine plus ten equals twenty-one craze a while back, and undoubtedly there will emerge a different trend after this. That’s children’s behavior. When I was youth, it was imitating Kevin and Perry impressions (truthfully outside the learning space).

Children are spontaneous, and I think it falls to the teacher to respond in a manner that guides them in the direction of the course that will help them to their educational goals, which, with luck, is coming out with certificates as opposed to a behaviour list lengthy for the use of random numbers.

‘Students desire belonging to a community’

Young learners employ it like a bonding chant in the playground: a student calls it and the others respond to demonstrate they belong to the identical community. It’s like a call-and-response or a stadium slogan – an agreed language they possess. In my view it has any particular meaning to them; they merely recognize it’s a trend to say. Whatever the newest phenomenon is, they seek to experience belonging to it.

It’s forbidden in my classroom, however – it’s a warning if they exclaim it – similar to any different shouting out is. It’s especially challenging in numeracy instruction. But my pupils at primary level are nine to 10-year-olds, so they’re relatively accepting of the guidelines, whereas I appreciate that at teen education it may be a separate situation.

I have served as a teacher for a decade and a half, and such trends continue for a few weeks. This phenomenon will fade away soon – this consistently happens, especially once their little brothers and sisters begin using it and it’s no longer fashionable. Subsequently they will be focused on the following phenomenon.

‘You just have to laugh with them’

I started noticing it in August, while instructing in English at a international school. It was mainly boys uttering it. I educated ages 12 to 18 and it was prevalent with the younger pupils. I didn’t understand its meaning at the time, but as a young adult and I understood it was simply an internet trend similar to when I was at school.

The crazes are constantly changing. ““Skibidi” was a popular meme back when I was at my educational institute, but it didn’t really exist as much in the classroom. Unlike “six-seven”, ““the skibidi trend” was not inscribed on the whiteboard in instruction, so learners were less prepared to embrace it.

I typically overlook it, or sometimes I will smile with the students if I inadvertently mention it, trying to relate to them and recognize that it’s simply pop culture. In my opinion they just want to experience that feeling of community and friendship.

‘Playfully shouting it means I rarely hear it now’

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