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Throughout the UK, school pupils have been shouting out the phrase “sixseven” during lessons in the newest internet-inspired phenomenon to spread through schools.

While some educators have decided to calmly disregard the phenomenon, different educators have accepted it. Several teachers share how they’re coping.

‘I believed I’d made an inappropriate comment’

Back in September, I had been addressing my year 11 tutor group about getting ready for their secondary school examinations in June. It escapes me exactly what it was in connection with, but I said a phrase resembling “ … if you’re aiming for grades six, seven …” and the complete classroom erupted in laughter. It took me entirely unexpectedly.

My first thought was that I’d made an reference to an offensive subject, or that they’d heard an element of my pronunciation that seemed humorous. Slightly exasperated – but honestly intrigued and aware that they weren’t trying to be malicious – I persuaded them to clarify. Frankly speaking, the clarification they offered failed to create greater understanding – I still had no idea.

What could have rendered it extra funny was the considering movement I had performed during speaking. I later found out that this frequently goes with “six-seven”: My purpose was it to help convey the process of me verbalizing thoughts.

To end the trend I attempt to bring it up as much as I can. Nothing diminishes a phenomenon like this more effectively than an grown-up striving to join in.

‘Feeding the trend creates a blaze’

Knowing about it assists so that you can steer clear of just unintentionally stating remarks like “well, there were 6, 7 hundred unemployed people in Germany in 1933”. If the numerical sequence is inevitable, maintaining a firm school behaviour policy and standards on student conduct is advantageous, as you can deal with it as you would any other disturbance, but I’ve not really had to do that. Guidelines are important, but if learners accept what the learning environment is doing, they will remain better concentrated by the internet crazes (particularly in lesson time).

With 67, I haven’t lost any lesson time, other than for an occasional quizzical look and saying ““correct, those are digits, good job”. When you provide oxygen to it, it transforms into an inferno. I handle it in the equivalent fashion I would treat any additional interruption.

Previously existed the 9 + 10 = 21 trend a few years ago, and undoubtedly there will emerge another craze after this. It’s what kids do. When I was growing up, it was doing comedy characters impressions (admittedly outside the learning space).

Children are unforeseeable, and In my opinion it falls to the teacher to respond in a manner that guides them back to the course that will help them to their educational goals, which, hopefully, is completing their studies with qualifications as opposed to a behaviour list a mile long for the employment of arbitrary digits.

‘Students desire belonging to a community’

Students utilize it like a connecting expression in the playground: a student calls it and the remaining students reply to demonstrate they belong to the same group. It’s similar to a call-and-response or a football chant – an common expression they possess. I don’t think it has any particular importance to them; they just know it’s a thing to say. Whatever the newest phenomenon is, they seek to feel part of it.

It’s banned in my teaching space, though – it’s a warning if they exclaim it – similar to any additional shouting out is. It’s especially challenging in numeracy instruction. But my pupils at fifth grade are pre-teens, so they’re fairly compliant with the regulations, although I appreciate that at high school it could be a separate situation.

I have worked as a instructor for a decade and a half, and such trends continue for a month or so. This craze will die out in the near future – this consistently happens, particularly once their little brothers and sisters begin using it and it stops being cool. Then they’ll be engaged with the subsequent trend.

‘You just have to laugh with them’

I first detected it in August, while instructing in English at a foreign language school. It was mostly young men uttering it. I instructed ages 12 to 18 and it was common among the younger pupils. I was unaware its meaning at the time, but being twenty-four and I recognized it was merely a viral phenomenon similar to when I was a student.

These trends are constantly changing. ““Skibidi” was a well-known trend at the time when I was at my educational institute, but it didn’t really appear as frequently in the educational setting. Differing from ““sixseven”, ““that particular meme” was not inscribed on the chalkboard in class, so learners were less able to pick up on it.

I simply disregard it, or sometimes I will chuckle alongside them if I inadvertently mention it, trying to understand them and recognize that it is just contemporary trends. In my opinion they merely seek to enjoy that sensation of belonging and companionship.

‘Lighthearted usage has diminished its occurrence’

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