This teacher carried 10-year-old student with spina bifida on his back across a state park so she could attend a field trip.
"Ryan is a spitfire," Ryan’s mom Shelly King told"Good Morning America."
Though educational, King said their alternative trips are not the same for Ryan who acts like any other 10-year-old despite already enduring 38 surgeries in her life. Jim Freeman, a fourth-grade teacher at Tully Elementary School in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, has always said"hi" to Ryan in the hallways even though he doesn’t teach her class.He's taught at the school for three years, and when he heard about Ryan's predicament, the self-described"bigger guy" offered to carry her on his back across the state park himself.
Freeman also told"GMA" that before they began the difficult descent, Ryan was"pumped" and turned around, looked at him and said"this is what I’ve been waiting for all day."With Freeman’s help, Ryan was able to circumnavigate the boulders and twists and turns that would have made the trip impossible. She said she felt grateful that she could explore with the rest of her class.
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