• Curtis Jenkins, a bus driver in Texas, bought Christmas gifts for every student on his bus.
• He’s now being praised by the entire community for his kind act.
• “Seeing the faces of those kids was more than anything that I could ever do with the money,” Jenkins said.

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One bus driver in Texas knows the true meaning of Christmas: he bought each of the students who take his bus a present.

The day before Christmas break at Lake Highlands Elementary School, Curtis Jenkins packed his bus with wrapped gifts, one for each student.

“He asked every kid on the bus what they wanted for Christmas and then bought it for them,” the school wrote in a Facebook post. “This reminds us how much good there is in the world and how we should all strive to be a little more like Curtis.”

His wife, Shaneqia Jenkins, told NBC 5 he was planning on doing something special for the children for months. He originally wanted to do a gift exchange, but she told him some children might not be able to afford it. Curtis said he remembers being a child and not getting a lot for Christmas, so he decided to buy each child their own gift.

“I had an auntie that would buy a pack of socks and she would give us all one pack of socks and wrap it,” Jenkins told NBC 5. “When you’re going to school and you have a hole in your socks, that new pair of socks meant something to you.”

For the past few months, Jenkins was committed to setting aside money from every paycheck. With some financial help from parents who heard what he was doing, Jenkins was able to buy games, a bike, and even small electronics for the kids.

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Ethan Ingle, an 11-year-old boy on Jenkins’ bus, received a pair of headphones in his favourite colour, red.

“I really like them, they are awesome,” Ingle told NBC 5.

The act wasn’t just well received from the students. In fact, Lake Highlands’ Facebook post is filled with loving comments from parents and people within the district.

“It’s amazing for so many reasons,” Renee Barry Barfoot wrote. “I’m in tears thinking about the salary of a bus driver and the gift he’s given these kids to know that their driver cherishes each one of them.”

Another commenter, Jo Coode Salinas, wrote, “May this kind, generous gentleman be blessed tenfold for the love he has shared with those children.”

While Jenkins continues to get praised for his good deed, he said he has done it all in good faith.

“I’m not at a job, I’m on a mission from God,” Jenkins told NBC 5. “I don’t say anything about religion to the kids. I just let them know whatever they love is fine with me, just love somebody on the way.”

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