{"id":282719,"date":"2025-11-25T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:54:08","slug":"i-didnt-start-it-starmer-apologises-for-six-seven-uproar-during-school-visit-keir-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282719\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I didn\u2019t start it\u2019: Starmer apologises for \u2018six seven\u2019 uproar during school visit | Keir Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It has become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/oct\/20\/six-seven-latest-slang-should-parents-be-worried\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bane of many parents\u2019 and teachers\u2019 existence<\/a>: children bleating out \u201csix seven\u201d for apparently no reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">So parents of pupils at Welland Academy in Peterborough will be unimpressed to discover that none other than the prime minister was encouraging their youngsters in the viral phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a clip posted to Keir Starmer\u2019s Instagram account, the prime minister can be seen reading with a young girl who points out she is on \u201cpage six-seven\u201d, prompting him to start the dance move \u2013 a juggling like motion \u2013 that accompanies the infuriating craze.<\/p>\n<p>Allow Instagram content?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-j4jr8l\">This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click &#8216;Allow and continue&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Before long, other members of the class are joining in and laughing hysterically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThat was a bit wild,\u201d Starmer says as he exits the classroom, before he is swiftly reprimanded by the school\u2019s headteacher, Jo Anderson. \u201cYou know children get in trouble for saying that in our school?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The prime minister, who was visiting the school along with the education secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/bridget-phillipson\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bridget Phillipson<\/a>, apologises as he walks down the corridor, adding: \u201cI didn\u2019t start it, Miss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The phrase \u201csix-seven\u201d appears to originate with the Philadelphia rapper Skrilla\u2019s 2024 track Doot Doot (6 7), in which it\u2019s either a reference to police radio code, or 67th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But it really went viral when the song was repeatedly used to soundtrack video clips of the NBA basketball star LaMelo Ball, who is 6ft 7in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has become the bane of many parents\u2019 and teachers\u2019 existence: children bleating out \u201csix seven\u201d for apparently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-282719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}