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It took months of planning, four Sunday night rehearsals, early-release permissions from school and a 30-mile bus ride, but dozens of middle school students were finally able to deliver a simple message to their favorite teacher: All you need is love.In a viral video posted this week, dozens of Hingham Middle School chorus students can be seen serenading choir director Christopher Landis at his wedding rehearsal lunch in Plymouth, The Patriot Ledger reported. The emotional video, which shows students singing The Beatles’ “All You need is Love” to Landis and his now-husband Joe Michienzie, has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times this week.“It was so wonderful for the kids to see him with his family and his close friends, and they saw him as a person, not just their teacher,” Joy Foraste, one of the parents who organized the surprise, said. “They saw how much it meant to him. He immediately started crying and the kids started crying. It’s something they’ll never forget.”Foraste and Margit Foley, both parents of eighth-grade girls, started planning the surprise all the way back in September. They knew they wanted to do something to celebrate the wedding of their daughters’ favorite teacher, but didn’t want to step on any toes or butt-in on the celebration.“We reached out to his fiance Joe because I wasn’t really sure how he’d react,” Foley said. “But he was immediately on board. He said he had also been trying to figure out how to incorporate the students because they mean so much to Mr. Landis.”The pair visited the venue to start working out logistics and got in touch with Dona Naher, a private Norwell chorus teacher whose students are often also in Landis’ class. From there, they emailed the parents of 60 students, hoping to get even 20 positive responses.“We had no idea what to expect,” Foley said. “But instead of the 20 we were hoping for, we had over 50 kids. It’s such a testament to Mr. Landis as a teacher and as a figure in their lives.”The students met at The James Library in Norwell on four different Sunday afternoons to practice, starting the week before Thanksgiving. When the day finally came, Foraste said she was shocked and impressed by not only the students’ dedication, but their ability to keep a secret.The kids all left school early on the day of the rehearsal lunch, Dec. 21, and were bused by another parent to Plymouth. When the students started streaming into the venue, the video shows a confused Landis immediately start to cry when he realizes what is was going on.After the performance, Landis turns to the crowded room and says, “These are my kids.”“It’s great that this is the type of community we get to work in,” Hingham Middle School Principal Derek Smith said. “It says so much about the kids and their parents, but also about the type of teacher Mr. Landis is, that he would inspire something like this ... It was excellent.”