School cafeteria worker made a custom cart so a boy with dwarfism could serve himself
Six-year-old Julian Worsham of Beaverton, Oregon is like a lot of other first-graders: he loves Super Mario and Taekwondo. But he has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, and goes to a school that wasn’t built for kids his height.
“He’s born into a world that just, in some ways, is not built for him,” Julian’s father, Brett, told WHAS11.
A first day of school surprise
His mother did a walk-through before his first day at school to make sure he wouldn’t run into any problems because of his height but forgot to check the cafeteria. [We] “noticed that where the food was, was right at his head,” Heather told the Beaverton School District. Then, to make things more of a struggle, he had to carry his tray outside to the lunch benches.
The school made him a makeshift........
