Skibidi toilet . Six seven . Tralalero tralala . Unc . Chopped . Aura . Sigma . Gyatt . Rizz . These slang words echo in the brains of educators, parents and older siblings. Middle schoolers today constantly spew unfamiliar terminology, referred to as brain rot , and spend significant portions of their time looking at trivial online content. I’ll admit — during student teaching, I almost fell victim to a middle school boy’s deez nuts joke setup. Yet in all of my experiences with education and student dialogue, the same mantra remains true: the kids are okay.

The new era of brain rot is not cause for adult concern. Language is always evolving , and tweens curating a secret code that irks older generations is a rite of passage that is not new to Generation Alpha. New

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