There’s a fun video circulating TikTok showing a Philadelphia teacher and her second grade student perform an epic dance battle set to the “Veggie Dance” from the popular kids Youtube channel “Grace’s Corner.”
The best part is that the young student has no idea the kind of moves his opponent has up her sleeve.
In the clip, we see 8-year-old Ahmad confidently showing off as the audience cheers him on. From the look on his face, he’s already won. Spoiler alert: he didn’t.
That’s because it was 2nd grade teacher Regina Laurie’s turn, and she was ready to “teach Ahmad a lesson.”
Laurie told Philadelphia ABC station WPVI, “He kept telling me, ‘Oh, Mrs. Laurie, you’re old. Look at your (gray) hair.’ So I said to myself, ‘I’m going to challenge this boy to a dance-off. I’m going to dance rings around this boy and he doesn’t even know it yet!'”
Watch her do exactly that below, in a video posted by @jiggythegod:
@jiggythegod Cool Kids Vs Cool Teachers Dance Battle! – #SchoolJoy #Educators #CoolKids #dancebattlechallenge #Dance #philly #nyc #dc #battle #fun #trending #trendingtiktok #Viral #fyp #students #Teach ♬ Veggie Dance – Gracie’s Corner
Viewers were blown away by Laurie’s moves, chiming in with comments like “left not a piece of crumb she ate” and “she in fact ate em up.”
Others simply applauded the lighthearted moment. One viewer even wrote, “it’s giving real life Abbott Elementary.”
This “Veggie Dance” battle is part of the school’s weekly lunchtime break called “Fun Friday,” where both kids and teachers can take a break from academia and simply feel some joy.
And clearly, as we can see from this dance battle, there’s more than one way to get schooled.