Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall

As a kid I remember some moral outrage over ... garbage pail kids.

I can handle a silly kid meme, they happen all the time.

I lived through that one as a kid and see this one as parent. This is different. A few kids at school brought garbage pail kids in and would show them at recess. This is more every kid anytime someone says these specific numbers. It's ubiquitous and constant. Nobody was throwing garbage pail kids around every math lesson.

Imagine yourself at 12yo, and just believe the axiom that saying 6 7 is funny. Your parents are telling you that interrupting math class in such a ubiquitous and constant manner is beyond the pale. They reach into their past, where "the thing banned at school" was actually acceptable and clearly different.

Maybe it depends on who you were as a kid... but if I'm who I was at 12yo, I'm going to keep doing it, and now it's way funnier. You're playing a hugely important role being the lame adult in many recess discussions. No offence.

Disrupting class is where the line is drawn in our house, no matter the mechanism of doing so.