A 29-year-old woman who adopted a former student and his brother is now celebrating being completely debt-free<\/span>.<\/p>\n Chelsea Haley of Marietta, Georgia, has eliminated a total of $48,683.41 — the amount she owed in credit cards and student loans with interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It doesn’t feel real yet,” Haley, mom of Jerome, 17, and Jace, 6, told “Good Morning America.” “It’s so amazing. I even logged into my student loans and it said, ‘Cleared. Zero balance.'”<\/p>\n Haley was teaching in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2015, on a two-year commitment to Teach for America, which is an organization that recruits recent college graduates to work in low-income schools. Her son, Jerome, was in her 4th-grade class at the time.<\/p>\n When Haley saw Jerome getting suspended from school and failing to progress academically, she started spending time with him — going to his football games, buying him school supplies and more, she told “GMA” in 2018.<\/p>\n