How Kylie Kelce helped deliver a ‘Christmas miracle’ to a local teacher and her high school class

A teacher’s TikTok video led to a sponsored class trip to Lincoln Financial Field

Kylie Kelce helped pay for a Philly high school's class trip to Lincoln Financial Field.Read moreTyger Williams / Staff Photographer

Published Dec. 18, 2024, 5:26 p.m. ET

Bonnie Giberson needed a “Christmas miracle.” And that’s exactly what she and her senior students at Penn Treaty High School in Fishtown got — thanks to Kylie Kelce.

As of Monday, only three students had paid for the class field trip to tour Lincoln Financial Field, but Giberson needed a minimum of thirty to attend in order to make the trip happen. So during her lunch break Monday, without the students knowing, she recorded a video asking for help covering the cost of the trip, and uploaded it to TikTok.

“I’m supposed to take my high school seniors on a field trip [to Lincoln Financial Field] this Thursday the 19th,” Giberson, 27, said in her video. “We love the Eagles, we bond over them, we talk about every game. Most of my students can’t afford to pay for the field trip, which is how I cover the cost of the bus. And if I can’t figure something out by tomorrow, Tuesday, I have to cancel the field trip. Please … just help us. It would be a Christmas miracle.”

The video has since gained over 400,000 views on TikTok and over 500 comments, many offering to donate money. But one person’s response stood out among the rest.

On the same day it was posted — before it even went viral — the video caught the attention of Kelce, who commented, “tell me your school name.”

“I feel like with TikTok, especially, you always see these kind of amazing things just working out. And I was pretty upset, feeling bad that we would have to cancel the trip,” said Giberson, who is in her third year at Penn Treaty and teaches a ninth grade creative writing class in addition to her 12th grade senior capstone class. “So, I just thought let me try a Hail Mary and put it out there. Chances are someone knows someone, and it worked out.”

Giberson found out about Kylie’s comment at dinner later that day through a text message from her friend.

“I was in disbelief,” she said. “But, you know, it’s Queen Kylie, so once I saw what she had commented, I figured that something would probably be able to work out.”

The next day, Giberson received a call at the school.

“She called the school,” Giberson said. “My secretary called me because [Kelce] just called our office number, and she said there was a parent on the line who wanted to pay for students who couldn’t pay. And when I got her, she said it was Kylie and I really didn’t know what to say. I was kind of shell shocked.”

In that moment, Kylie sent Giberson the money through Venmo for the school bus for the trip and said she’d cover the tour herself. When Giberson finally told the students their trip was paid for, she said most of them were surprised and very confused.

“The people’s princess has spoken,” Giberson said in a follow up video posted on TikTok on Tuesday explaining that Kylie offered to cover the cost of the school bus and the tour.

Giberson said there’s been a few times the school needed to cancel events like homecoming due to a lack of student participation. Thanks to Kylie, that didn’t have to happen this time.

“The Eagles bring Philadelphia together and it’s a point of pride that we have, especially this season,” Giberson said. “It was originally supposed to be a low-key field trip to get to see these things we normally wouldn’t see and hang out together before we go on winter break, and now it’s that times 10.”

But Kylie isn’t the only Kelce outperforming Santa Claus this year.

Her husband, former Eagles center Jason Kelce, joined current Birds Jordan Mailata and Lane Johnson to distribute holiday presents to students at several schools as part of “Operation Snowball” — their project to give a gift to every kid and teacher in city public and charter schools. Giberson’s students at Penn Treaty also got their presents Tuesday.

“It was amazing to see that everybody got something,” Giberson posted.

Watch out Mr. and Mrs. Claus, you have some competition this holiday season.