Crazy Sock Day to take place tomorrow at K-M

Across the country people will be celebrating World Down Syndrome Awareness Day, by wearing “crazy socks.”
For the second year, Kasson-Mantorville Schools will be celebrating this to help spread awareness for the disability, a disability that one of its students.
Lincoln Buckingham, is a 10 year fourth grader at Kasson-Mantorville Elementary School, and although he has one extra chromosome, Lincoln’s mom Michelle, explained that he’s just like any other normal kid.
“He’s a really good kid,” she said.
Buckingham, explained that they brought the idea to the school district about celebrating the day last year. After doing it last year, the district decided to do it on a larger scale, which will include a contest at the high school.
“We’re pretty excited,” Buckingham said.
Buckingham, explained that    It’s super cool that they are participating in the day,” Buckingham said,” The more other kids are espoused to kids that have disabilities the more inclusion there is,” she added.
Because Down Syndrome is something that only about 1 out of 800 people have, it is something that not many people know about, and that since Lincoln has been born, it has changed their family and friends views about the disability.
“He has really changed our family and friends perspective of what Down syndrome is,” she said.
Check out a full story about Lincoln and Down Syndrome in next week's DCI.