24-04-2025
Del-City High School teacher's name reflects impact on her students
DEL CITY, Okla. (KFOR) — Step inside Mrs. Angel Kerr's freshman English class — a cozy place that even former students continue to stop and revisit.
'And now I visit her during passing period sometimes,' MacKenzie Andersen said. 'She's just really energetic, outgoing, amazing woman.'
Andersen is now a sophomore at Del City High School, but she knew of Mrs. Kerr's kindness long before she knew Mrs. Kerr.
'It's very touching, honestly. It feels amazing having someone in our corner like that, especially as a teenage girl,' Andersen said.
For fifth through 12th graders within the Mid-Del School District, Mrs. Kerr has headed up the Sisterhood Project, providing sanitary products to female students free of charge and free of judgment.
'Some people can't afford them, or they can't have anyone who can get them for them,' Andersen said.
PAY IT 4WARD: A special honor for a special education paraprofessional
That is why she nominated Mrs. Kerr for Pay It 4Ward.
'We love recognizing people making a difference in the Midwest City and Del City area, and I think Mrs. Kerr is a perfect example of what Pay It 4Ward is all about,' Alyssa Sunday of First Fidelity Bank said. 'I would like to present you, on behalf of First Fidelity Bank, $400 to pay it forward.'
'You must be Mrs. Kerr. I'm Joleen with News 4, and you were nominated for Pay It 4Ward by one of your former students, and she has something for you.'
'It's $400,' Andersen said.
Immediate tears.
'I love you, too,' Kerr said. 'Thank you.'
Followed by immediate laughter.
'This was good,' Kerr said. 'We noticed that we have some kids who would miss school. 'Hey, where have you been?' I didn't have money for products, or I had an accident at school, and nobody wants to feel like that.'
To Kerr, it seemed like an easy fix — supply them for everyone.
'We started trying to figure out how to come up with a way to reach as many people as possible in the least restrictive way,' she said. 'We want you in class. We want you to learn.'
And students have learned much more.
'Since we started doing the program here, we changed the culture around it. Girls weren't trying to hide stuff,' Kerr said.
In a classroom full of high school freshmen talking about what once may have been taboo, there was not one giggle.
'Here we're empowering these girls to be future women and these guys to be dads, and uncles, and friends that'll just go, 'Oh, yeah. It's just natural. It's completely normal,' which has been phenomenal,' Kerr said. 'I've got a whole basket and stuff just outside my door.'
Donations are provided by individuals, and dispensers are inside every restroom and funded through the Mid-Del Public Schools Foundation.
'Crazy amazing support,' Kerr said. 'I love you so big.'
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