“6-7” trend.

[CGB]

What does it mean? In what context would they use it?

There really isn't a context. Simply mentioning "six" or "seven" will get it started. I told my 8th graders today that it's over since 3rd graders are now doing it.

If you need a good reply, tell kids "That's totally mid. LOCK IN!"

 

[Lumpy1106]

Could be worse...
Has been worse...
Recently.

I'll take it. It's dumb, but also benign - unlike some other recent trends.

 

[T00dles]

This thread is def 6-7.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/66...tball-taylen-kinney-high-school-social-trend/

 

[Magical2017]

Not irritated at all. My college students laugh and get excited when those numbers show up in class, and the elementary students they teach get excited if it comes up, too. I found this 6 7 math challenge where students have to add parentheses to strings of numbers in order to use the order of operations to make the answer 6 or 7. Finding ways to capitalize on it instead of getting annoyed can make learning fun. Unless I completely missed the boat, it is not in any way derogatory or mean-spirited. It's just about the height of an NBA player that for some kid-reason, is funny to them. As a 57 year old woman, I sometimes find middle-school humor funny.

I feel sorry for some of my high school teachers who dealt with the whole valley girl "dude" or "gag me with a spoon" phase we all went through. I am sure they rolled their eyes at us.

 

[greeneyedchick]

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)?

It irritates my middle-school-aged son. He said a teacher cannot count to 10 without the whole class reacting when they get to 6 7. He thinks it's so stupid and doesn't understand why kids think it's so funny. If I were a teacher, it would drive me batty.

 

[emchen]

The scene in early Dec: Epic Universe past 12pm. Starlight Racers reopened the very day we were visiting for the first time. We waited two hours to close the park on the ride. Our turn comes to be assigned seats. EU castmember: lane 6 7!!! Me and the girls look at each other and our eyes and yelling in unison 6 7!!! Perfect end to the night.

Me: 54, DD1: 20, DD2: 18, DD3: 17.

 

[hardcorestitch]

It irritates my middle-school-aged son. He said a teacher cannot count to 10 without the whole class reacting when they get to 6 7. He thinks it's so stupid and doesn't understand why kids think it's so funny. If I were a teacher, it would drive me batty.

I’d imagine which kids you’d send to detention instead of Disney come the end of the school year…

 

[sam_gordon]

Found on Instagram...

 

[greeneyedchick]

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)?

I just read this thread to my son. He says his English teacher will give anyone who says "6 7" an immediate lunch detention.

 

[texaslover]

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.

Totally agree. I was in a 3rd grade classroom with a math teacher who purposely used a word problem that was 49 divided by 7 so they could count out 7 groups of 7. The whole class was counting and yelling 6,7 and doing the hand motion for each group. Total engagement. My ESL kids were so happy bc they understood and could participate with the rest of the class. I thought it was adorable lol.

 

[PollyannaMom]

This thread got me thinking...

a new-ish article:
Teen Talk and Linguistic Evolution

and remembering it's not so new:
Valley Speak too groady

 

[citruscurtis]

I’d imagine which kids you’d send to detention instead of Disney come the end of the school year…

Wow Molly Ringwald made an impression on you

 

[MamaMermaid]

My son is 7 and thinks it's annoying. I am a high school teacher and it comes up often. I just roll my eyes. Granted, it's one of the less offensive trends so I don't mind it too much.