Bowling Green elementary schoolers celebrate friends with World Down Syndrome Day parade

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Cumberland Trace Elementary Schoolers hooped and hollered for their classmates at their World Down Syndrome Day Parade. 

The kids cheered on all their special friends in style as they rode around all their peers in their golf carts. 

Almost 20 kids with down syndrome at Cumberland Trace Elementary got the royal treatment, reading their friends’ signs and hearing them cheer their names.

Young Shelby Brown and Asher Lewis were two of the stars in the parade.

Shelby thought the golf cart was lots of fun, and Asher loved the card his friends made him with a picture of his favorite celebrity John Cena.

Shelby’s mom Leann Brown wants to see inclusion more than anything for Shelby and other kids with down syndrome.

“[Kids with down syndrome are] just like everybody else. They just have a little something extra. So, birthday parties, sleepovers, that’s just what we want, because they’re just like everybody else,” Leann said, tearing up.

Days like these where we learn to celebrate our differences take us all one step closer to Leann’s goal.