“6-7” trend.

[hardcorestitch]

This is the most ridiculous trend I have ever heard… random kids just yelling those two numbers. Does this irritate you, and if you are an educator are you taking any further action (detentions, essays, or even restricting/excluding your students from certain fun activities)?

 

[pinkxray]

I have a 10 and 8 year old. I have heard this too many times. It’s very annoying. I’ve asked them both what is the point and they have no idea. My kids don’t yell it though. My Dd said it twice on a car ride yesterday. I usually just tell them to stop and they forget about it for awhile. Guessing it must be big at school but it slides right back into their minds.

 

[RedAngie]

I saw this on display T-shirts in various souvenir storefronts on the Reboboth Beach and Ocean City Boardwalks this summer. I asked an employee standing outside one shop what it meant and he had no explanation, just that it was a stupid trendy thing kids were saying.

 

[loves to dive]

I'm not around kids very often so haven't heard it. But, if it's just random kids yelling it and not doing anything else, just yelling two numbers it wouldn't bother me.

 

[Nayan]

It's just silly slang that either A: means nothing or B: something is mid (eh my burger was so-so, give it a 6 7). Mostly is just something silly to say. Y'know, to annoy parents/teachers.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

I teach elementary school. I usually hear it a few times a day. Students don't yell it out in class or anything, though. Its dumb, but they could be saying worse things, I guess.

 

[monsterkitty]

This is the most ridiculous trend I have ever heard… random kids just yelling those two numbers. Does this irritate you, and if you are an educator are you taking any further action (detentions, essays, or even restricting/excluding your students from certain fun activities)?

If I were still in the classroom I would just go along with the trend. It's no different than when "21" was the latest trend. I taught band and orchestra so every time I said start at measure 21 the kids would say,"21" like the little boy in the viral video. I started saying it with them and we laughed and moved on.

Detention would be overkill unless it was truly interrupting the educational learning time of the rest of the class.

Assigning an extra writing assignment for a discipline issue should never be done. It just makes children hate writing. Much like making a child do pushups as punishment.

Restricting/excluding students from fun activities should be a last resort. Just as I said for the detention, if this is truly interrupting the learning time for others then maybe this should be a step. This would be after a hallway conversation, phone call home, then a detention. If this didn't solve the issue, then a possible office referral for further discipline. But this should only be used if it is extreme.

Teachers know that if you use the trend as well it's cringe and the students no longer find it fun.

 

[pezgirlroy]

It is so so so annoying. I have a 14 year and 9 year old. What I do is just use it myself like all of the other annoying words. They have stopped in the house because of it.

 

[Miffy]

It's an Internet meme. You can read about it on Wikipedia. Based on a song, and the songwriter himself says it has no particular meaning at all.

 

[PollyannaMom]

This is the most ridiculous trend I have ever heard… random kids just yelling those two numbers. Does this irritate you, and if you are an educator are you taking any further action (detentions, essays, or even restricting/excluding your students from certain fun activities)?

Background in education, but not currently teaching school (though I do have a "niece" and "nephew" in the age range, so I've heard them use it.)

I see it as a harmless trend, and agree that if you embrace it, you will see less of it. Howie Hua (a math teacher on Instagram) has been doing that.

 

[o&smom]

I’m proud that they chose to use my birth year. Luckily, I have not been inundated by it from my 15 year old...she detests the crazy gen alpha language.

 

[_19disnA]

There is a similar thread on this topic. I would imagine in a few months, kids will have moved on to something else and that will be the end of this..................LOL.

 

[hardcorestitch]

There is a similar thread on this topic. I would imagine in a few months, kids will have moved on to something else and that will be the end of this..................LOL.

This trend can’t die soon enough…

 

[BrianL]

I mean, youth slang has always been nonsensical. It's may be annoying and weird, but your parents thought the same about you the way you talked too.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Why does it bother you so much?

You are looking to punish kids for being individuals, they aren't hurting anyone and it's literally just two numbers that are meaningless.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Why does it bother you so much?

You are looking to punish kids for being individuals, they aren't hurting anyone and it's literally just two numbers that are meaningless.

It’s just a disruptive chant. This isn’t acceptable in the workplace where those kids will be in the future.

 

[sam_gordon]

It’s just a disruptive chant. This isn’t acceptable in the workplace where those kids will be in the future.

You think this "chant" will still be in vogue when these kids get into the workplace?

You think these kids won't learn what's acceptable in the workplace in the next 5-10 years and will just start chanting numbers because of what's going on now?

 

[emchen]

crazy gen alpha language.

Are we back around to alpha already??? Gen X-er here.

 

[hardcorestitch]

You think this "chant" will still be in vogue when these kids get into the workplace?

You think these kids won't learn what's acceptable in the workplace in the next 5-10 years and will just start chanting numbers because of what's going on now?

That’s what I’m concerned about. There’s also a level of self control that needs to be instilled in those students. Not every boss or manager will be tolerant.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

I find this thread entertaining. One of the main reasons kids and teens over the decades have done certain things is to irritate the adults around them! It's clearly working based on the posts here!!!

I really doubt teens getting involved in something like this now will find they can't get a job in 5-10 years because of it! It might be annoying, but it seems pretty harmless. I'm much more concerned about other, more hostile trends that are also around.......