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Around the UK, students have been calling out the expression “sixseven” during classes in the newest viral phenomenon to spread through schools.

Although some educators have decided to calmly disregard the trend, others have incorporated it. Five teachers share how they’re dealing.

‘I thought I had said something rude’

Earlier in September, I had been talking to my year 11 tutor group about preparing for their qualification tests in June. I can’t remember specifically what it was in relation to, but I said something like “ … if you’re working to results six, seven …” and the entire group burst out laughing. It surprised me completely by surprise.

My immediate assumption was that I had created an hint at something rude, or that they’d heard an element of my pronunciation that appeared amusing. Somewhat frustrated – but genuinely curious and aware that they had no intention of being hurtful – I got them to elaborate. Frankly speaking, the description they then gave didn’t make much difference – I still had no idea.

What possibly caused it to be extra funny was the weighing-up movement I had performed during speaking. Subsequently I discovered that this frequently goes with “six-seven”: I had intended it to help convey the process of me verbalizing thoughts.

With the aim of end the trend I try to reference it as much as I can. No strategy reduces a trend like this more emphatically than an adult attempting to participate.

‘Feeding the trend creates a blaze’

Being aware of it assists so that you can prevent just accidentally making statements like “indeed, there were 6, 7 thousand jobless individuals in Germany in 1933”. When the number combination is inevitable, maintaining a strong student discipline system and requirements on student conduct really helps, as you can deal with it as you would any other disruption, but I’ve not really needed to implement that. Rules are one thing, but if pupils embrace what the school is practicing, they will become better concentrated by the internet crazes (particularly in instructional hours).

Regarding six-seven, I haven’t wasted any instructional minutes, other than for an infrequent quizzical look and commenting “yes, that’s a number, well done”. If you give focus on it, it transforms into a blaze. I treat it in the equivalent fashion I would treat any other disturbance.

Earlier occurred the nine plus ten equals twenty-one phenomenon a previous period, and undoubtedly there will emerge a different trend after this. That’s children’s behavior. When I was childhood, it was doing Kevin and Perry impressions (truthfully out of the classroom).

Children are unpredictable, and In my opinion it falls to the teacher to behave in a manner that guides them back to the direction that will get them to their educational goals, which, with luck, is completing their studies with certificates as opposed to a conduct report lengthy for the employment of random numbers.

‘They want to feel a part of a group’

Young learners use it like a connecting expression in the recreation area: a student calls it and the remaining students reply to show they are the same group. It’s like a call-and-response or a football chant – an common expression they use. In my view it has any distinct importance to them; they merely recognize it’s a phenomenon to say. Regardless of what the current trend is, they want to be included in it.

It’s prohibited in my learning environment, though – it triggers a reminder if they shout it out – identical to any additional verbal interruption is. It’s particularly challenging in numeracy instruction. But my pupils at primary level are pre-teens, so they’re fairly accepting of the guidelines, while I recognize that at secondary [school] it might be a different matter.

I have worked as a instructor for 15 years, and these phenomena last for a month or so. This trend will die out shortly – this consistently happens, notably once their little brothers and sisters start saying it and it ceases to be cool. Then they’ll be engaged with the following phenomenon.

‘Occasionally sharing the humor is essential’

I first detected it in August, while teaching English at a language institute. It was mainly male students repeating it. I instructed teenagers and it was prevalent with the junior students. I had no idea what it was at the time, but being twenty-four and I recognized it was merely a viral phenomenon akin to when I was at school.

These trends are constantly changing. “Skibidi toilet” was a popular meme at the time when I was at my teacher preparation program, but it failed to appear as frequently in the classroom. Differing from “six-seven”, “skibidi toilet” was not scribbled on the chalkboard in instruction, so pupils were less able to pick up on it.

I just ignore it, or occasionally I will laugh with them if I accidentally say it, trying to relate to them and understand that it is just pop culture. I believe they just want to feel that sense of community and companionship.

‘Playfully shouting it means I rarely hear it now’

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