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Throughout the UK, learners have been calling out the words ““six-seven” during instruction in the newest viral phenomenon to spread through schools.

Although some teachers have decided to calmly disregard the trend, some have embraced it. A group of teachers explain how they’re dealing.

‘I thought I had said something rude’

Earlier in September, I had been talking to my eleventh grade students about preparing for their qualification tests in June. I can’t remember specifically what it was in connection with, but I said words similar to “ … if you’re targeting marks six, seven …” and the entire group erupted in laughter. It took me totally off guard.

My immediate assumption was that I had created an allusion to an offensive subject, or that they perceived a quality in my speech pattern that appeared amusing. A bit exasperated – but genuinely curious and mindful that they had no intention of being hurtful – I persuaded them to elaborate. To be honest, the clarification they then gave didn’t provide greater understanding – I remained with minimal understanding.

What possibly caused it to be especially amusing was the considering movement I had executed while speaking. Subsequently I learned that this frequently goes with ““sixseven”: I had intended it to assist in expressing the action of me speaking my mind.

To kill it off I aim to mention it as often as I can. Nothing reduces a phenomenon like this more thoroughly than an teacher attempting to join in.

‘Providing attention fuels the fire’

Knowing about it helps so that you can avoid just blundering into comments like “for example, there existed 6, 7 million people without work in Germany in 1933”. When the numerical sequence is unpreventable, having a firm school behaviour policy and standards on pupil behavior proves beneficial, as you can address it as you would any other interruption, but I rarely needed to implement that. Guidelines are important, but if learners embrace what the educational institution is doing, they will become less distracted by the internet crazes (at least in lesson time).

With sixseven, I haven’t lost any instructional minutes, aside from an occasional quizzical look and stating ““indeed, those are numerals, excellent”. When you provide oxygen to it, then it becomes an inferno. I address it in the same way I would handle any different disruption.

Earlier occurred the 9 + 10 = 21 trend a few years ago, and certainly there will appear another craze following this. This is typical youth activity. During my own growing up, it was performing comedy characters impressions (honestly away from the learning space).

Students are unpredictable, and I think it’s an adult’s job to behave in a manner that steers them back to the course that will help them to their educational goals, which, fingers crossed, is graduating with certificates as opposed to a behaviour list lengthy for the utilization of random numbers.

‘Students desire belonging to a community’

Students employ it like a unifying phrase in the recreation area: a student calls it and the remaining students reply to show they are the equivalent circle. It’s similar to a call-and-response or a football chant – an common expression they use. I believe it has any distinct significance to them; they merely recognize it’s a phenomenon to say. No matter what the current trend is, they seek to feel part of it.

It’s banned in my learning environment, however – it results in a caution if they call it out – just like any different shouting out is. It’s particularly challenging in mathematics classes. But my class at primary level are children aged nine to ten, so they’re quite accepting of the regulations, while I understand that at teen education it might be a different matter.

I have served as a educator for a decade and a half, and these crazes persist for a few weeks. This craze will die out in the near future – they always do, notably once their younger siblings begin using it and it’s no longer cool. Afterward they shall be focused on the following phenomenon.

‘You just have to laugh with them’

I first detected it in August, while teaching English at a international school. It was mostly young men repeating it. I taught teenagers and it was common with the junior students. I didn’t understand its meaning at the time, but being twenty-four and I understood it was merely a viral phenomenon comparable to when I was at school.

These trends are continuously evolving. ““Skibidi” was a familiar phenomenon back when I was at my educational institute, but it failed to occur as often in the educational setting. Differing from ““sixseven”, “skibidi toilet” was never written on the board in class, so students were less equipped to pick up on it.

I just ignore it, or sometimes I will smile with the students if I unintentionally utter it, attempting to understand them and appreciate that it’s simply contemporary trends. I believe they merely seek to experience that feeling of togetherness and companionship.

‘Lighthearted usage has diminished its occurrence’

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