Everybody needs something like this right now

Let it out

She is rather out of touch with American culture.

Probably from Canada

THIS is Americana!!! 🤟🥰🤟

Sure is

The students became the teacher.

Moment she won’t forget

Gen-Z teacher doesn't know the song or understand why it's good (likely because she's been listening to shitty Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Maren Morris music her whole life) can't comprehend why her Gen-Alpha students want to listen to Take Me Home, Country Roads.

She looks like a Phish Phan

LOL. She's way too young to know what Phish is. Gen-Z has the worst taste in music of any generation, because they've been force-fed corpo-slop through streaming algos.

Am I the only one who sang along?

Naw

Listening to those kids sing warmed my heart.

Youd be amazed at how many 11U kids have walk up songs like this on their travel baseball teams.. Journey, Kansas, Neil diamond, Metallica.. Sure there's some doodoo 'trap' music too, but the young kids really do like the oldies. It's the "Sing along" vibes they want, they love Screaming " Sweet Caroline!" together..

Clearly wasn't paying attention during the World Cup when people from all around the world were singing this song.

This is how it looks when someone born in 1999 who has never heard of John Denver is asked by kids born in 2015 to play a song from 1971.

That's the power of John Denver

It's timeless. And a somewhat different version is actually very popular in Japan

OK - cute. ? inspiring, but can they spell any of the words IN it? Can they do math, geography, social studies, algebra, know anything about politics..... Didn't think so. Love the concept of daycare for middle schoolers. Sing a song, then nap time?

If you can’t find any light in a world of darkness why even get up?

@321bab If your name is “Marky” why get up

@GetOnTap I guess for the same reasons if your name is Chirs.

This song will never die. I'm from WV, lived in Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, and North Carolina for short periods. I've also travelled around the world a bit and my Mountain Mama always calls me home. These rugged "hills" make me feel the safest.

The kids are going to be okay

America 🫡🇺🇸

The best of it

100% better than singing to rap

That's the National Anthem of Appalachia.

The resurgence of John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Road is because of FIFA World Cup 2026. This was supposed to be the USA victory song, but it slipped early, and other countries picked up on it, and it was a runaway train from there.

@SomeguyfromTN I have to yell-sing this every single time. No exceptions

Stick to things like this, and the kids are gonna be alright.

This song makes me cry. I love these kids for bewildering their dumb teacher with it.

How does she not know this song? Good for those kids!! 👊👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

First thing I saw when I woke up. The country needs more of this. Awesome.

What do you expect from a tatted up liberal arts graduate? That song just makes you want to sing!!!

Teardrop in my eye! God bless America! 🇺🇸

Americana was powerful and good That's why they spent 50 years killing it . Fight back

The kids are gonna be alright.

Great opportunity to teach them that this song is about Western Virginia, and not the WV the state

If I was a substitute teacher I would do this every single day as a surprise for the regular teacher

Sorry… this is the superior version. 🤷🏻‍♀️

People want to feel connected. At any age.

Great song don’t know why she is so surprised. Why ain’t she singing it

best thing I've seen on the internet in quite a while. So nice to see a teacher doing something other than trans indoctrination of children.