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High School Students Help Teachers Get Engaged
An all-hands-on-deck for this proposal!
Heidi Kennedy
08.23.19

Every proposal story is unique. Whether it is a quiet moment between just two people or a large crowd is involved, the grandest of gestures usually requires days of strategizing and planning. Jonathan Holt decided to go big when he asks the students in his high school to help him propose to his girlfriend, Iris Howorth.

It was just another day for Iris, but little did she know that something big was about to happen.

Waiting anxiously in the hall, Jonathan waits as the time to start the show is drawing near. When the timing is right, Jon goes into the classroom and sets up the scene.

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A camera is placed in the back of the room so that the moment is captured forever. Jon instructs the students on what he wants them to do. The students had been given ring pops and were instructed to ask Ms. Howorth to marry them. Each student around the room was to get down on one knee with the ring pop and propose.

“It has got to be natural. It has got to be funny.” he tells the students.

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He wants them to each ask her to marry them. His goal is to catch her off guard. A student raises his hand to volunteer to propose first. He lays out the rest of the plan for the students to have her cornered near the front of the room.

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As Iris enters the classroom, her students had just finished watching a video.

The plan to get her to walk around the room was for them to have her look at the notes they had been taking. When she gets near the first student’s desk, that is when things start to get interesting.

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Obviously caught off guard by their behavior and the multiple proposals, Iris is intrigued by what they are up to.

“Why are you acting so weird?” she asks.

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The students all start to giggle. Walking around the room, more and more students get down on their knees and propose. Laughing and getting down on one knee, they all take turns asking her to marry them.

Then Jon walks through the door.

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He comes in and joins the students on one knee asking the same question – will she marry him?

“Yes!” she says holding back tears.

The students start clapping and cheering as the couple hugs and walks out the doors of the classroom.

The couple leaves the room and walks down the hall flooded with cheering students.

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As soon as they open the door, the band starts to play. Balloons are hanging from the ceiling and streamers are floating down. The hallway is lined with students and teachers as a camera follows them down the hall. The newly engaged couple is grinning ear to ear as they make their way through the school.

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Although Jon could not have pulled off this proposal without the help of all the students and staff, they all wish the happy couple a wonderful life together.

Watch how they pull the whole event together below!

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