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Georgia boy fighting cancer gets wish

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    Elementary school makes boys dream come true

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This is a story about being part of something.

It's a story about crime and growing up.

And how something so simple and routine to one person can be another person's dream come true.

You had never.

Yeah.

Casey listed under that -- of a few hundred middle schoolers that babies children Barnett.

And -- has gone through a lot in his eleven years.

Doctors found a tumor on his brain when he was just thirteen months old.

After a decade of fighting the terminal disease -- lost the ability to speak and recently as his condition worsened he lost the ability to walk.

When he was making its recently.

And they weren't talking to children about their aspirations their drains.

One of the things with -- for him one of his biggest things you -- -- boards is.

Is just graduating fifth grade and even onto middle -- Going to the big school -- he called it was -- dream.

So Flint hill elementary in Newton got to work making his dream come true.

It went as having -- -- regulations in the home schooling.

To the house band come.

Graduation minds.

On graduation day.

It's just amazing -- in the middle school yeah.

Getting that experience.

Friday cousins middle school welcomed -- as one of their own.

They just say -- Mexicana -- infamous love the kids out.

During an afternoon pep -- children became the sixth grade student at the big school just like he -- Maybe even better than it -- streams John what did you think of all that.

There are some I think it's just has text him and his family in a way.

-- hours.