‘Sometimes you’ve got to chuckle’: several UK instructors on dealing with ‘‘sixseven’ in the school environment

Around the UK, learners have been calling out the words ““67” during classes in the newest viral phenomenon to sweep across schools.

Although some educators have decided to stoically ignore the trend, different educators have accepted it. Five educators describe how they’re managing.

‘I thought I had said something rude’

During September, I had been addressing my secondary school students about getting ready for their qualification tests in June. I can’t remember specifically what it was in relation to, but I said words similar to “ … if you’re targeting grades six, seven …” and the entire group started chuckling. It took me entirely unexpectedly.

My immediate assumption was that I’d made an allusion to something rude, or that they’d heard something in my speech pattern that sounded funny. Slightly exasperated – but honestly intrigued and aware that they had no intention of being mean – I persuaded them to explain. To be honest, the explanation they provided didn’t make much difference – I remained with minimal understanding.

What possibly made it especially amusing was the evaluating gesture I had executed while speaking. I later found out that this often accompanies “six-seven”: I meant it to help convey the process of me thinking aloud.

In order to end the trend I try to mention it as much as I can. No strategy diminishes a phenomenon like this more thoroughly than an adult striving to get involved.

‘Feeding the trend creates a blaze’

Knowing about it helps so that you can steer clear of just accidentally making statements like “indeed, there were 6, 7 million people without work in Germany in 1933”. If the digit pairing is unpreventable, possessing a strong student discipline system and requirements on pupil behavior is advantageous, as you can deal with it as you would any additional interruption, but I haven’t actually had to do that. Guidelines are important, but if students buy into what the educational institution is implementing, they’ll be less distracted by the internet crazes (especially in instructional hours).

Concerning six-seven, I haven’t sacrificed any instructional minutes, other than for an periodic quizzical look and commenting ““correct, those are digits, good job”. Should you offer oxygen to it, it transforms into an inferno. I treat it in the equivalent fashion I would manage any different disruption.

Earlier occurred the 9 + 10 = 21 phenomenon a while back, and undoubtedly there will emerge a different trend following this. This is typical youth activity. Back when I was childhood, it was doing television personalities impersonations (honestly away from the school environment).

Students are unpredictable, and I believe it’s the educator’s responsibility to respond in a way that guides them back to the direction that will help them to their educational goals, which, fingers crossed, is graduating with academic achievements as opposed to a behaviour list lengthy for the utilization of random numbers.

‘Students desire belonging to a community’

The children use it like a unifying phrase in the schoolyard: one says it and the other children answer to indicate they’re part of the equivalent circle. It resembles a interactive chant or a stadium slogan – an common expression they use. In my view it has any particular significance to them; they simply understand it’s a phenomenon to say. Regardless of what the current trend is, they seek to experience belonging to it.

It’s banned in my learning environment, though – it results in a caution if they shout it out – just like any other verbal interruption is. It’s notably difficult in numeracy instruction. But my class at primary level are nine to 10-year-olds, so they’re quite accepting of the regulations, although I recognize that at secondary [school] it might be a separate situation.

I have served as a teacher for 15 years, and these phenomena last for three or four weeks. This trend will die out soon – this consistently happens, especially once their junior family members begin using it and it stops being cool. 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 male students repeating it. I instructed students from twelve to eighteen and it was prevalent among the less experienced learners. I was unaware its meaning at the time, but I’m 24 years old and I recognized it was simply an internet trend comparable to when I attended classes.

These trends are continuously evolving. ““Skibidi” was a well-known trend back when I was at my training school, but it didn’t really appear as frequently in the educational setting. Unlike ““sixseven”, “skibidi toilet” was not inscribed on the board in class, so students were less equipped to embrace it.

I simply disregard it, or periodically I will smile with the students if I inadvertently mention it, striving to empathise with them and recognize that it’s merely contemporary trends. I think they just want to enjoy that sensation of togetherness and friendship.

‘Lighthearted usage has diminished its occurrence’

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