"The teaching profession requires a certain degree of patience. Particularly when students discover a new trend to latch onto and repeat at every given opportunity. The latest so-called "brain rot" phrase to flood the classroom: "6-7." If you don't have any Gen Alphas in your life and have no idea what I'm talking about, count yourself lucky. Some teachers have taken to social media to share their exasperation with the trend that has recently overrun classrooms, with schools outright banning it in some instances."
""Say 6-7 one more time," one teacher posted on TikTok, pretending to address a student in her class. "We're gonna call your mom in about 6-7 minutes, let her know how you interrupt my class 6-7 times a day, and then maybe she'll take your phone away for 6-7 days." Teachers are going to extreme lengths to avoid saying the numbers, on the pages of text books or the answers to maths equations, for fear of triggering a commotion in the classroom."
""I choose 6 and 7 and 67 every time I need random numbers right now which also seems to be killing the joke for the kids, but I think it's very funny," one teacher responded to a Reddit thread on r/Teachers. 'I did it with a class earlier this week and they didn't do it again,' another suggested. 'Nothing like a teacher doing a trend to make something uncool.'"
Teachers face repeated classroom disruptions from a viral Gen Alpha catchphrase '6-7' that students repeat at every opportunity. Some schools have banned the phrase because the repetition triggers commotions and interrupts lessons. Teachers have reacted by avoiding the numbers in textbooks and answers, inventing management tactics, or adopting the trend to make it uncool. Some teachers threaten parental calls or phone confiscation, while others deliberately use 6, 7, or 67 as random numbers to defuse the joke. The phrase originated on TikTok, amassed over a million videos, and can be traced to the song 'Doot Doot' by Skrilla.
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