We had a whole school meeting in the auditorium about these little things people were making with paperclips that snapped and felt like a bee sting when you were hit with them. Not only did it raise awareness of the thing throughout the entire school, they were stupid enough to show us how to make them and use them to inflict bee stings.
This reminds me of when I was a teacher and the stupid clown hype was at its peak. The kids asked me if I’d seen any clowns creeping around and I said “oh yeah, right in the woods behind the school!” Obviously taking the piss. I can’t remember how admin got wind of this, but my vice principal at the time was one of the dumbest, most weirdly dramatic people I’d ever met. She called me into her office and said that’s a huge no no because now they have to report it as a serious threat to the campus. I was like “do you really think I saw clowns in the woods and also like what is the threat?” and she was so adamant that this was VERY SERIOUS. So this genius decides to go classroom to classroom telling the kids that NO ONE is allowed to ever talk about clowns in school again. Half the kids didn’t even know what this clown business even was. Obviously now all the kids are talking about fucking clowns and saying they saw one in the bathroom or in the street outside the school. It was such a stupid fucking mess.
These administrators never learn. Had a kid tell me recently his school banned saying “67”. These idiots just ensured that trend will last longer. Also how do you enforce a ban on saying numbers? All around stupid and setting up teachers for failure.
I’m an adult, and I couldn’t stop cringing with secondhand embarrassment when all our executives were dropping it nonstop in the last quarterly town hall, to try to show how on trend they were. ☠️
I think you whooshed in your original comment too… making a comment about cringing when adults did 67 to adults when the whole chain is about adults doing it to make kids stop doing it…
Dude. If you have to keep trying to explain a joke, justify a joke, or tell someone else why you think they didn’t get the joke…..it was just a bad joke. 🤷♀️
Yeah, a little cringe goes a long way in high school. if the principal really laid it out during announcements, it wouldget everyone's attention and probably shift the narrative fast...
as you type "lol" instead of "laughing out loud" hahaha
e: people don't shorten words for an objectively faster life with less wasted time. they do it because it feels faster, which is what most people truly value. feel free to extrapolate my reasoning here
capitalization's easy enough that it's not warranted to correct it imo. basically anyone can capitalize correctly if they ever need to, but a lot of people seem to struggle with apostrophes lately.
that's been my reasoning, anyway. FWIW, I'm agreeing with you haha
redditors LOVE calling out capitalization as a "gotcha" too lmao. like, clearly that was a choice, bro.
so... The only grammatical rules that need to be followed are the ones people might mess up by accident? If they know the rule and break it it bears no correcting? Lol. 😂
I'll give you a tip friend-o, nobody likes the person who corrects grammar and punctuation. It's never helpful, and it's never welcome, unless you are either asked or teaching/tutoring a student. It's a quick way to make people not like you. It's not because they're upset their grammar was wrong and someone called it out, it's because it's rude and derails them from saying whatever they were saying, just to call out a petty error that didn't affect meaning anyways
A kid left a 6-7 drawing on my desk and I hung it on the wall. Then I started putting it on all my anchor charts. 6-7 is all over my classroom. It’s objectively uncool.
Honestly, I did the same. Accidentally ended up kinda liking the fad, so me and the kids are having a more enjoyable time. Sometimes you win either way.
Yeah I dont have a negative reaction and once your teacher is in on the joke it becomes cringe. And thats something most of my colleagues dont seem to understand, kid got written up for saying "ok boomer" to a teacher.
I did that to my kids the minute they started with 67 and they stopped almost immediately. I've done it a few times since and they literally sigh and cringe. I've never been so proud of myself.
I’ve seen some super-sanctimonious posts from parents about how they’ve told their kids they will never allow them to say 6-7 because it’s not cute or funny and their words MUST mean something in order to be worth saying. Ugh. First of all, they sound like they’re loads of fun in social settings. Second, I’m sure they’ve guaranteed their kids will never say 6-7…. in front of them.
Dude I’ve seen it all. That same year they banned the dab and the hand circle “made you look” thing. Dumbest school I’ve ever worked at. They said the dab was “drug related” lmao.
In high school my friends got banned from wearing shirts that said “I pwn n00bz” bc administration said they thought it was some hate message about owning Nubian slaves.
I mean, in many ways, they're kinda preparing kids for when authorities try to ban,(censor, drive to the black market, thought control, etc) things when they are adults. Makes the experience of encountering state authoritarianism familiar regarding both frivolous and important things in their lives. A subset will always see through the bullshit, but many more will be happily compliant.
All the admin has to do is make the morning announcements and "I hope you all have a 6-7 day!" and they will cringe so hard that they'll never say it ever again.
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We had a whole school meeting in the auditorium about these little things people were making with paperclips that snapped and felt like a bee sting when you were hit with them. Not only did it raise awareness of the thing throughout the entire school, they were stupid enough to show us how to make them and use them to inflict bee stings.