‘You just have to laugh’: five UK educators on handling ‘six-seven’ in the school environment

Around the UK, school pupils have been exclaiming the expression ““six-seven” during classes in the latest meme-based trend to spread through classrooms.

While some educators have opted to calmly disregard the phenomenon, some have incorporated it. A group of instructors share how they’re coping.

‘I thought I had said something rude’

During September, I had been addressing my eleventh grade students about preparing for their qualification tests in June. I don’t recall exactly what it was in reference to, but I said something like “ … if you’re working to marks six, seven …” and the whole class started chuckling. It surprised me entirely unexpectedly.

My initial reaction was that I’d made an hint at an offensive subject, or that they perceived a quality in my accent that appeared amusing. Somewhat exasperated – but honestly intrigued and aware that they weren’t trying to be hurtful – I persuaded them to explain. Frankly speaking, the clarification they provided failed to create much difference – I remained with little comprehension.

What could have made it particularly humorous was the considering gesture I had executed while speaking. I later found out that this often accompanies “six-seven”: My purpose was it to aid in demonstrating the process of me speaking my mind.

In order to eliminate it I aim to bring it up as often as I can. Nothing diminishes a phenomenon like this more emphatically than an grown-up trying to join in.

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

Being aware of it assists so that you can prevent just blundering into remarks like “well, there were 6, 7 million unemployed people in Germany in 1933”. When the numerical sequence is inevitable, maintaining a rock-solid student discipline system and standards on learner demeanor proves beneficial, as you can sanction it as you would any other disturbance, but I’ve not really needed to implement that. Rules are necessary, but if students accept what the educational institution is implementing, they will become more focused by the online trends (especially in lesson time).

With 67, I haven’t wasted any instructional minutes, except for an infrequent eyebrow raise and saying ““indeed, those are numerals, excellent”. Should you offer attention to it, it transforms into an inferno. I address it in the same way I would handle any other disturbance.

Previously existed the 9 + 10 = 21 trend a few years ago, and certainly there will appear a different trend following this. That’s children’s behavior. When I was childhood, it was performing television personalities impersonations (truthfully outside the classroom).

Young people are unforeseeable, and I think it falls to the teacher to respond in a way that redirects them in the direction of the course that will enable them toward their academic objectives, which, fingers crossed, is coming out with qualifications rather than a behaviour list a mile long for the employment of random numbers.

‘They want to feel a part of a group’

Students utilize it like a unifying phrase in the recreation area: one says it and the remaining students reply to demonstrate they belong to the identical community. It resembles a interactive chant or a stadium slogan – an shared vocabulary they possess. I don’t think it has any specific significance to them; they simply understand it’s a thing to say. Regardless of what the newest phenomenon is, they want to experience belonging to it.

It’s banned in my classroom, however – it’s a warning if they call it out – just like any different shouting out is. It’s especially challenging in mathematics classes. But my class at fifth grade are children aged nine to ten, so they’re relatively accepting of the guidelines, although I appreciate that at teen education it might be a separate situation.

I have served as a instructor for fifteen years, and these phenomena last for a few weeks. This trend will fade away shortly – it invariably occurs, notably once their little brothers and sisters start saying it and it’s no longer trendy. Subsequently they will be on to the subsequent trend.

‘Occasionally sharing the humor is essential’

I started noticing it in August, while teaching English at a foreign language school. It was primarily boys saying it. I educated teenagers and it was common within the junior students. I didn’t understand what it was at the time, but being twenty-four and I realised it was just a meme comparable to when I was a student.

Such phenomena are constantly changing. ““Toilet meme” was a well-known trend at the time when I was at my training school, but it didn’t really occur as often in the educational setting. Unlike ““67”, ““the skibidi trend” was never written on the board in class, so students were less prepared to pick up on it.

I typically overlook it, or periodically I will laugh with them if I unintentionally utter it, striving to empathise with them and understand that it’s simply pop culture. In my opinion they merely seek to feel that sense of belonging and friendship.

‘Humorous repetition has reduced its frequency’

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