In Knoxville, children as young as 7 have to walk through mobs of parents calling them "sheep."

[Nevilledog]

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In Knoxville, children as young as 7 have to walk through mobs of parents calling them “sheep.” At times, they obstruct entrances making it difficult to enter the school. They have blocked the car entrances at the high school. This all occurs in Farragut.

This is occurring at Farragut Intermediate, Middle, and High Schools. The school has tried to get them off school property but the sheriff’s department isn’t helping at all. The refuse to enforce any mandate. This isn’t enforcing a mandate though. It’s protecting children.

This mob is there to protest a mask mandate that was ordered by a federal judge. Many of them do not have kids in these schools. Yet, they are allowed to bully and intimidate children. Parents and staff have asked the school district for help in this matter but none is granted.
7:16 AM · Oct 4, 2021

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[Bettie]

1. Well, I guess a-holes gotta

a-hole.

Or something.

What ugly people they are, taunting kids who are trying to go to school.

[raging moderate]

3. Could the National Guard help, or US Marshals?

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It seems like a dangerous situation.

[Xoan]

2. Take note ...

Farragut is NOT Knoxville.

[Peacetrain]

11. Beg to differ with you... I know the high school

I used to live in Concord Tennessee... and it is just part of Knoxville now.. it is just one old big busy road out that way..

[TNNurse]

23. You can pretend that, but it is just suburban (and not very) Knoxville.

Most people are not sure if they are shopping in one or the other.

[LunaSea]

28. Farragut is very much Knoxville

Just with extra entitlement.
Farragut refused incorporation into Kville, but it's the same type of people.
They just have money.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. An familiar strategy for them

[Baitball Blogger]

8. I wish someone could interview her so she could tell us what was going through her head

when she walked alone through these horrible, deplorable people.

[Mister Ed]

16. I've read some brief interviews with those Little Rock students.

The interviews were brief because they don't like to recall their experience, and don't like to speak of it. They say they have tried not to think of it in their later lives.

It sounds very much to me like the feelings of traumatized combat veterans.

[bullwinkle428]

26. This was the very first image that came to mind after reading headline.

[NHvet]

31. Saw it, Lived it.

My family moved to Nashville Tn from St Louis Mo in 1971. As a student in St Louis, I attended integrated schools. My first day of school in Nashville was the beginning of my education about the world of segregation, racism and racists. The school I was enrolled in that year was forced to integrate by the courts that year. Buses full of black children were outside the school that first day. And there to welcome them were the meanest, most vile people I have every seen (until Trump came along and brought these people back with a vengeance ). Shouting, cursing, signs, bats, rocks, all means that the angry whites used to intimidate the kids on the buses. All of this happened while the police just stood there and grinned. Inside the school it wasn't much better, as it became a white vs black environment. The rest of the school year wasn't much better than day 1. Fast forward to the next year and the roles of the kids were swapped. I, along with some of my fellow white class mates from the previous year were bused to a downtown school. But unlike the year before, I didn't see one protester. Talk about a culture shock. Lockers in the hallways with out doors, broken windows, desks that looked like they were take from the dump for use by us.Walls with paint chipping. Bathrooms with broken toilets or no water running. Unbeknownst to me at the time but joining the schools football team kept me from getting into racial scuffles in school. Found myself one of 7 white kids on the team. Had to endure a lot of crap on the field but off the field I had a new set of protectors, my teammates. The football team that year, we went undefeated. As for me continuing education in Nashville, that wasn't to be as my Dads job took us back to St Louis.

[panader0]

34. Thumbs up man.

[elias7]

5. Oh the irony of a bleating self-important mob of followers who don't see their own ovine reflection

[oioioi]

15. Four legs good, two legs better

[gratuitous]

6. What would happen . . . ?

What if one of the parents dropping off their child for school just drove through that angry mob blocking the car entrance?

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Excellent question.

Precedents have been set…

[Vinca]

7. That's really low - traumatizing kids over wearing a lousy mask. WTF is wrong with these people?

[bahboo]

9. my junior high or high school self....

would've found a way to seriously fuck with these people....and it would have been fun...

[ffr]

12. Does anyone else see the irony of the protesters hold UNITED STATES flags?

As they're trying to divide people against one another!!

[bringthePaine]

13. seems to me like child abuse and harassment, no?

[DanieRains]

14. Is Kentucky A State Where You Can Legally Run Over Protesters?

With all these nutjob states, get them mixed up.

[jmowreader]

20. This is in Tennessee

And just for reference, you’re only allowed to run over liberal protesters.

However, it might be interesting to get a really big vehicle, like an old Soviet BTR-60 armored personnel carrier, and drive it through a Proud Boys demonstration at 5 mph just to test the law.

[Rebl2]

17. Don't understand

why the police can’t be called upon to help

[Midnight Writer]

18. Arm the kids. Problem solved.

[iluvtennis]

19. So fkn juvenile. Vaccines and masks are the weapons needed to win the war on COVID-19

They need to grow up.

[AllaN01Bear]

25. kids are smarter than the parents.

[iluvtennis]

32. Indeed. n/t

[paleotn]

21. Oh, god. Farragut...

Not at all surprised. Nether is my better half. She grew up there. K-town suburb. Her dad commuted to ORNL in Oak Ridge.

[roamer65]

22. Oh, what joy a can of mace would bring to that scene.

Hell, I’d even settle for pepper spray.

[barbtries]

24. the adults are worse than the kids.

this country continues on its downhill trend. this sickens me.

[bottomofthehill]

27. Let them die

I am sorry, but I am at the point that we should give them what they want. two sets of schools. One with vaccines and masks and one without. Let the teaching staff that dont want masks and vaccines teach at the unvaccinated schools. I am at the point like in Shrek that "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to take"

For the teachers too stupid to get vaccinated, go to the death camp school. To the kids whos parents are willing to sacrifice them on the alter of Trump, I am sorry, but the stupid seed does not fall far from the stupid tree.

I have had it with the stupidity and putting those who are trying their hardest to protect themselves and others in harms way. Its not working so fuck it, let them die.

[iluvtennis]

33. Good idea for vaccinated and un-vaccinated schools. BUT..then the entitled will say the kids at

un-vacinnated school aren't getting an education on-par with the vaccinated schools. You can't win with these wingnuts.

[peggysue2]

29. O.M.G.

I knew it was bad; I knew it wasn't my imagination.

Farragut, Tennessee is the area I just moved from, now living in Delaware County, PA. It was obvious there were residents who simply would not get with the Covid program--refusing vaccination, eschewing masks.

But this?

Taking your craziness to the schools, intimidating elementary school kids goes beyond the pale.

I'm glad to have left the state far behind but I do have sympathy for all Farragut residents and those throughout the state who do not stand with these whackos.

Btw, it's outrageous the sheriff's office refuses to intervene. Nothing like turning a safety issue into a political one, again. Hope people remember this on the next round of elections.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a good number of the protestors come from outside Farragut which is by-and-large an upper middle-class area, lots of well-educated professionals and successful business owners in the area. Farragut schools are considered top-notch; most residents are proud of that and the schools are a definite plus in real estate valuations.

So to have this type of assault on the schools is . . . surprising.

That being said, there are also a number of church-sponsored schools, born-again believers/supporters. Might be a mix of animosities that have come to a head, the mask mandate tipping the scale into fury.

But taking any of this out on kids?

Absolutely NO!

[peggysue2]

30. PS

Just read from the same site the suggestion that these 'protestors,' aka Mob were encouraged to assemble by a coordinator from the John Birch Society.

It never ends!

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. I don't care if they threw me in jail

I'd go medieval on their ass. Where are the fucking cops?