A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “ 67 ” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked her students to write and perform a song about it.

“Some teachers get frustrated by slang,” Taryn Gontjes, who teaches choir to middle school students in Michigan, tells TODAY.com . “That’s not a battle I want to fight, so I might as well use it to my advantage. Let’s just embrace it and make it funny.”

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Gontjes posted the viral performance — which has more than 3 million views — on her TikTok account “That Weird Choir Teacher.” Students sing a warm-up tune based on a Dutch folksong called “Sarasponda” but with their own lyrics including, “67,” “ Skibidi Ohio ,” “Slay,” “ Rizzle

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