Students are hollering “6-7” in US classrooms and teachers are losing it: Here’s what it actually means

A peculiar new phrase is taking over classrooms across the United States, leaving teachers exasperated and students gleeful. “6-7,” pronounced “six-seveeeen,” is not a mathematics problem. It is, rather, the latest linguistic fad among Generation Alpha, an expression that seems to exist purely to unite peers in shared amusement. “It’s like a virus that has taken over these kids’ minds,” a seventh-grade science teacher in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, told CNN . “You can’t say any iteration of the numbers six or seven without at least fifteen students yelling, ‘6-7!’” This baffling chant is uniting students, and driving teachers up the wall. But, what does it even mean? Despite the chaos it causes, “6-7” has no coherent meaning. Its origin is murky, though some trace it to a viral