Little Girl Can Barely Walk — Teacher Looks at Her Pants and Calls 911 in Panic... It was a chilly Monday morning at Lincoln Elementary School in Des Moines, Iowa. The bell had just rung, and children hurried into the building with backpacks bouncing on their shoulders. But Ms. Rachel Thompson, a second-grade teacher, noticed one child walking differently from the rest. Eight-year-old Emily Carter shuffled slowly across the playground, her steps awkward and unsteady. She clutched the straps of h