A visiting dignitary trying to charm a room full of schoolchildren instead ended up apologizing for accidentally reviving a banned meme dance. The gaffe came as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, visited Welland Academy in Peterborough, a city around 70 miles north of London, with his education secretary. He was there to promote the expansion of the free school meals program, but, after a pupil noted they were on page 67 during a reading session, he responded with the hand-juggling gesture tied to the viral “6-7” dance—setting off instant chaos. “We are not over that yet, the 6-7, it’s still very much a thing,” one teacher said. As he exited, the prime minister told head teacher Jo Anderson the class had been “a bit wild,” only to learn the dance was banned. “You know,
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