Teacher Does the Unthinkable for a Student Who Wasn’t Able to Attend School Field Trip

The 10-year-old Kentucky girl who is confined to a wheelchair was planning to miss yet another field trip. That is until a teacher stepped in and turned that day into one she would never forget.

Ryan Neighbors, a fourth-grader at Tully Elementary in Louisville was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that occurs when the spine and spinal cord don’t form properly. Her condition has made it an obstacle for her to attend school field trips.

“We’ve had field trips before where we weren’t able to go and the school gives us alternate education days,” Neighbors’ mother, Shelly King, told CNN. “But when she goes back to school, her peers and classmates are all talking about the field trip, so she doesn’t have the same experience.”

As her class planned a field trip to a local state park, Neighbors assumed this would be another trip she wouldn't be able to attend. But Jim Freeman, a teacher in the class next to Neighbors’ classroom, refused to leave her behind. So Freeman took matters into his own hands and offered to tote Ryan around on his back as they hiked through the trails. Check it out: