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Across the UK, learners have been calling out the expression ““67” during classes in the most recent internet-inspired craze to take over educational institutions.

While some educators have decided to calmly disregard the phenomenon, some have embraced it. A group of educators describe how they’re managing.

‘I thought I had said something rude’

During September, I had been speaking with my eleventh grade students about preparing for their GCSE exams in June. I don’t recall precisely what it was in relation to, but I said something like “ … if you’re aiming for marks six, seven …” and the entire group erupted in laughter. It caught me entirely unexpectedly.

My first thought was that I might have delivered an allusion to an inappropriate topic, or that they perceived a quality in my speech pattern that sounded funny. Slightly exasperated – but genuinely curious and aware that they weren’t trying to be mean – I got them to explain. Honestly, the clarification they provided failed to create significant clarification – I remained with minimal understanding.

What possibly made it especially amusing was the evaluating gesture I had performed during speaking. I later learned that this typically pairs with ““67”: I meant it to assist in expressing the action of me thinking aloud.

To kill it off I try to reference it as frequently as I can. No approach deflates a phenomenon like this more effectively than an teacher striving to participate.

‘Providing attention fuels the fire’

Understanding it aids so that you can avoid just unintentionally stating remarks like “for example, there existed 6, 7 million jobless individuals in Germany in 1933”. When the number combination is unavoidable, maintaining a firm classroom conduct rules and standards on pupil behavior proves beneficial, as you can deal with it as you would any different disturbance, but I rarely been required to take that action. Policies are one thing, but if pupils accept what the educational institution is implementing, they will remain less distracted by the viral phenomena (particularly in lesson time).

Concerning sixseven, I haven’t lost any teaching periods, except for an occasional raised eyebrow and saying “yes, that’s a number, well done”. Should you offer oxygen to it, then it becomes a wildfire. I treat it in the identical manner I would treat any additional disturbance.

Previously existed the nine plus ten equals twenty-one craze a previous period, and undoubtedly there will emerge another craze after this. That’s children’s behavior. When I was childhood, it was performing Kevin and Perry impressions (honestly away from the learning space).

Young people are unforeseeable, and I think it falls to the teacher to react in a way that redirects them back to the direction that will enable them where they need to go, which, with luck, is graduating with academic achievements as opposed to a behaviour list lengthy for the employment of meaningless numerals.

‘Children seek inclusion in social circles’

The children employ it like a bonding chant in the recreation area: a pupil shouts it and the other children answer to show they are the equivalent circle. It resembles a call-and-response or a football chant – an agreed language they possess. I believe it has any specific significance to them; they merely recognize it’s a trend to say. Whatever the current trend is, they seek to experience belonging to it.

It’s banned in my teaching space, however – it’s a warning if they shout it out – similar to any other verbal interruption is. It’s notably difficult in maths lessons. But my students at fifth grade are nine to 10-year-olds, so they’re quite accepting of the guidelines, while I appreciate that at secondary [school] it might be a separate situation.

I have worked as a instructor for a decade and a half, and such trends continue for a few weeks. This phenomenon will fade away shortly – they always do, particularly once their junior family members start saying it and it’s no longer trendy. Then they’ll be engaged with the next thing.

‘Occasionally sharing the humor is essential’

I began observing it in August, while teaching English at a language institute. It was primarily boys repeating it. I taught ages 12 to 18 and it was prevalent with the junior students. I had no idea its meaning at the time, but as a young adult and I realised it was just a meme comparable to when I was at school.

Such phenomena are always shifting. ““Toilet meme” was a familiar phenomenon at the time when I was at my educational institute, but it didn’t particularly appear as frequently in the learning environment. Differing from “six-seven”, ““the skibidi trend” was never written on the whiteboard in instruction, so pupils were less able to embrace it.

I simply disregard it, or sometimes I will smile with the students if I unintentionally utter it, striving to relate to them and appreciate that it’s merely contemporary trends. In my opinion they merely seek to experience that feeling of belonging and camaraderie.

‘Playfully shouting it means I rarely hear it now’

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