Students Secretly Learned Their Teacher’s Band Song and Surprised Him With It
A high school teacher who fronts the rock band FELICITY found a note outside his classroom: his students had secretly learned another of his songs.
He was heading back into his classroom when he found it — a folded sheet of notebook paper waiting outside the door. In a clip posted to Instagram on October 20, high school teacher Damien Fagiolino picks it up, starts reading, and stops partway through, smiling like he cannot believe what it says.
The note was from his students, and it had nothing to do with homework or anything on the syllabus:
“Dear Mr. Fagiolino, we learned another one of your songs. Can we show you?”
Fagiolino is the frontman of FELICITY, an Orlando-based rock band, and the reel went up on the band’s own account. His caption reads, “so my students discovered i’m in a band…” and the text on the video fills in the rest: his students secretly learned one of his songs to surprise him, and, as he puts it on screen, “the second I recognized the music, i couldn’t believe it.”
One word in that note does a lot of quiet work: “another.” This was not the first time his students had done this — they had found his music before, learned it, and sung it back to him. This time they picked a second song and rehearsed it in secret until they were ready to hand him that note and ask for the floor. You can watch the whole moment unfold in the reel he posted below.
Then His Own Song Came Back at Him
Still holding the paper, he looks up and gives the class the only answer the moment allowed:
“Okay, um. Let’s hear it then.”
The students stay off camera for the entire clip — every singing voice is theirs, and every frame stays on him. Then, together, they start singing his own words back at him:
“I can feel you changing from 100 miles away. So I board my windows up and hide someplace safe.”
His hand goes to his chin. The grin arrives early and never leaves — he laughs out loud mid-line, eyes wide, shaking his head at a roomful of teenagers singing his song back at him in unison. When a student pipes up near the end to ask whether he liked it, his review is short:
“Wow. Wow. It’s incredible.”
It is a small clip — a couple of hundred likes and just two comments when checked — but both commenters landed in the same place. “That’s adorable,” one wrote, adding a red heart, and nobody seems inclined to argue.
Viewers couldn’t quite agree on the best part — the note, the grin, or the singing itself.
What nobody disputed: some teachers get an apple, but Fagiolino’s class gave him his own song back, twice.
Lou Montagna
Lou Montagna brings the heat as Chiefs Blitz's opinion columnist. Never afraid to stir the pot, his editorials on the Chiefs spark debate across Chiefs Kingdom every week.
