Taylor Kerby is a beloved psychology teacher at Edgewood High School in West Covina, California. So beloved, in fact, that all of the students in one of his classes chipped into buy him a pair of red Vans sneakers, the same shoes Kerby had complimented a student for wearing earlier in the school year.
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Dyani Heredia, the 17-year-old student who tweeted the video above, told BuzzFeed News that after complimenting the student’s shoes, Kerby said he was unlikely to buy a pair for himself. That gave Heredia and other students the idea to buy him the shoes as a gift.
It took the class about two weeks to raise the cash for the shoes. “There were about 25 of us and we pitched in $2 each,” Heredia told BuzzFeed. As you can see form the video above, the end result was clearly worth it.
“Oh my gosh,” Kerby says in the video. “They’re red Vans! You guys this is so sweet. I love them!…I’m like the coolest kid on the block right now.”
“So this is why you asked for my shoe size,” he says later. “I was weirded out! But this is so nice!”
