You’ve probably heard “6-7” and wondered what it meant. Now that “6-7” has hit mainstream media, its meaning may not even matter.

After all, Dictonary.com issuing a press release about “6-7” as the word of the year for 2025 means it’s just a matter of time before the kids who made “6-7” famous stop saying it. Still, the meaning of “6-7” is not clear, so I went straight to the source.

As a contracted enrichment teacher with Grasshopper Kids, I lead writing workshops for fourth-and-fifth-graders at San Francisco’s Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School. One of my prompts this week was to write about the meaning of “6-7.”

After cheers of enthusiasm for the assignment and students sharing the trademark chorus and hand choreography of “6-7” they got down to work. Here are some of the results.

This classroom experience exemplifies the Inkflow Communications approach of embedding as a journalist with each client. Working this way with the Lakeshore students keeps me young.