The Kentucky school planned a field trip for the nearby Falls of Ohio, a fossil bed on the Ohio River that requires hiking along rugged terrain.
There's a museum Ryan and her mom could've visited instead, but that would mean missing out on what the other kids got to do.
Ryan was determined to go on the hike, so her mum decided she would try and carry Ryan in a special backpack. King was prepared to chaperone the trip and carry her daughter the whole way, but someone reached out with a suggestion.
A teacher named Jim Freeman — who is not even Ryan's teacher — offered to do the carrying. "He was like 'Hey, I'll carry her, no big deal,'" King said.
This meant the world to Ryan, who King says "is your average 10-year-old who wants to be independent from her mother and be with her friends and be cool."
Freeman said he was happy to take on that physical challenge. He carried the fourth-grader around in 32-degree weather for about an hour, King said.
"That's 50 pounds (22.6kg) dead weight, she can't wrap her leg's around" King told CBS News. "Usually I'm used to doing these things for her because I'm a mom and that's what moms do." But this time, Freeman's help was much appreciated.
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