‘Sometimes you’ve got to chuckle’: five UK teachers on handling ‘‘sixseven’ in the school environment

Throughout the UK, school pupils have been exclaiming the phrase ““67” during lessons in the most recent meme-based trend to take over schools.

While some educators have chosen to calmly disregard the trend, different educators have accepted it. A group of instructors explain how they’re managing.

‘I thought I had said something rude’

During September, I had been talking to my eleventh grade students about preparing for their secondary school examinations in June. I can’t remember precisely what it was in connection with, but I said something like “ … if you’re aiming for grades six, seven …” and the complete classroom started chuckling. It caught me totally off guard.

My initial reaction was that I might have delivered an reference to an inappropriate topic, or that they’d heard an element of my pronunciation that seemed humorous. Slightly exasperated – but genuinely curious and aware that they had no intention of being mean – I persuaded them to explain. To be honest, the clarification they offered didn’t make greater understanding – I remained with minimal understanding.

What possibly caused it to be especially amusing was the considering gesture I had made while speaking. I have since found out that this typically pairs with ““67”: I had intended it to assist in expressing the process of me verbalizing thoughts.

With the aim of eliminate it I try to mention it as frequently as I can. No approach reduces a craze like this more thoroughly than an adult attempting to join in.

‘Feeding the trend creates a blaze’

Knowing about it assists so that you can avoid just blundering into statements like “indeed, there were 6, 7 thousand jobless individuals in Germany in 1933”. If the numerical sequence is unpreventable, possessing a firm school behaviour policy and standards on pupil behavior is advantageous, as you can address it as you would any different disturbance, but I haven’t actually needed to implement that. Policies are important, but if pupils buy into what the school is practicing, they’ll be more focused by the internet crazes (at least in instructional hours).

Concerning 67, I haven’t wasted any instructional minutes, other than for an infrequent eyebrow raise and stating ““correct, those are digits, good job”. When you provide attention to it, it transforms into a blaze. I treat it in the equivalent fashion I would handle any other disturbance.

Earlier occurred the 9 + 10 = 21 trend a while back, and there will no doubt be a new phenomenon following this. It’s what kids do. When I was growing up, it was imitating television personalities mimicry (honestly away from the learning space).

Young people are unforeseeable, and In my opinion it’s an adult’s job to behave in a manner that steers them toward the direction that will help them to their educational goals, which, hopefully, is graduating with certificates as opposed to a disciplinary record a mile long for the utilization of random numbers.

‘They want to feel a part of a group’

The children use it like a unifying phrase in the playground: one says it and the others respond to show they are the identical community. It resembles a verbal exchange or a stadium slogan – an common expression they possess. In my view it has any distinct meaning to them; they just know it’s a thing to say. Whatever the current trend is, they want to be included in it.

It’s prohibited in my classroom, nevertheless – it results in a caution if they exclaim it – similar to any additional calling out is. It’s particularly challenging in maths lessons. But my students at fifth grade are children aged nine to ten, so they’re relatively compliant with the rules, although I understand that at high school it could be a distinct scenario.

I’ve been a teacher for fifteen years, and such trends continue for a month or so. This trend will die out in the near future – they always do, particularly once their junior family members start saying it and it stops being cool. Then they’ll be on to the subsequent trend.

‘You just have to laugh with them’

I began observing it in August, while instructing in English at a language institute. It was mainly boys repeating it. I instructed ages 12 to 18 and it was prevalent within the less experienced learners. I was unaware what it was at the time, but being twenty-four and I understood it was just a meme similar to when I was at school.

Such phenomena are constantly changing. “Skibidi toilet” was a popular meme back when I was at my educational institute, but it didn’t particularly appear as frequently in the educational setting. Differing from ““sixseven”, ““that particular meme” was not scribbled on the whiteboard in lessons, so pupils were less able to pick up on it.

I simply disregard it, or periodically I will smile with the students if I inadvertently mention it, trying to relate to them and recognize that it’s simply pop culture. I think they merely seek to experience that feeling of togetherness and camaraderie.

‘Lighthearted usage has diminished its occurrence’

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