Teachers saying hello by dancing and singing to the Jackson 5? The kids at at one Miami school have received just such a welcome this fall.
After seven months of virtual teaching, the faculty at Florida’s St. Agatha Catholic School wanted to greet their students back to school in the warmest way possible. So they created a fun video for all their pupils.
“Our middle school teachers were the ones that first came up with the idea,” Dr. Diana Gonzalez-Eastep, the school’s counseling psychologist, told GNN. “They wanted to select a song that was happy with a great beat.”
Literature teacher Mrs. Marisa Quesada suggested the Jackson 5 song, and the theme of “We Want You Back” was born.
The 1969 smash hit has been updated by the teachers for 2020, with lyrics like “Oh baby, give me one more chance (To show you that I love you)” being replaced with “Oh students time to grab your masks (And your sanitizer).”
As St. Agatha is a Catholic school, there are some faith-based lyrics thrown into the latter part of the song too.
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The performance is sure to bring you a smile in these trying times, just as it did for the school’s students—and watch for the mascot that gets involved in the dancing, too.
(WATCH the video below and get ready to tap those toes.)
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