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Nevilledog

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Mon Oct 4, 2021, 02:41 PM Oct 2021

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





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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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Well, I guess a-holes gotta Bettie Oct 2021 #1
Could the National Guard help, or US Marshals? raging moderate Oct 2021 #3
Take note ... Xoan Oct 2021 #2
Beg to differ with you... I know the high school Peacetrain Oct 2021 #11
You can pretend that, but it is just suburban (and not very) Knoxville. TNNurse Oct 2021 #23
Farragut is very much Knoxville LunaSea Oct 2021 #28
An familiar strategy for them ThoughtCriminal Oct 2021 #4
I wish someone could interview her so she could tell us what was going through her head Baitball Blogger Oct 2021 #8
I've read some brief interviews with those Little Rock students. Mister Ed Oct 2021 #16
This was the very first image that came to mind after reading headline. bullwinkle428 Oct 2021 #26
Saw it, Lived it. NHvet Oct 2021 #31
Thumbs up man. panader0 Oct 2021 #34
Oh the irony of a bleating self-important mob of followers who don't see their own ovine reflection elias7 Oct 2021 #5
Four legs good, two legs better oioioi Oct 2021 #15
What would happen . . . ? gratuitous Oct 2021 #6
Excellent question. Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #10
That's really low - traumatizing kids over wearing a lousy mask. WTF is wrong with these people? Vinca Oct 2021 #7
my junior high or high school self.... bahboo Oct 2021 #9
Does anyone else see the irony of the protesters hold UNITED STATES flags? ffr Oct 2021 #12
seems to me like child abuse and harassment, no? bringthePaine Oct 2021 #13
Is Kentucky A State Where You Can Legally Run Over Protesters? DanieRains Oct 2021 #14
This is in Tennessee jmowreader Oct 2021 #20
Don't understand Rebl2 Oct 2021 #17
Arm the kids. Problem solved. Midnight Writer Oct 2021 #18
So fkn juvenile. Vaccines and masks are the weapons needed to win the war on COVID-19 iluvtennis Oct 2021 #19
kids are smarter than the parents. AllaN01Bear Oct 2021 #25
Indeed. n/t iluvtennis Oct 2021 #32
Oh, god. Farragut... paleotn Oct 2021 #21
Oh, what joy a can of mace would bring to that scene. roamer65 Oct 2021 #22
the adults are worse than the kids. barbtries Oct 2021 #24
Let them die bottomofthehill Oct 2021 #27
Good idea for vaccinated and un-vaccinated schools. BUT..then the entitled will say the kids at iluvtennis Oct 2021 #33
O.M.G. peggysue2 Oct 2021 #29
PS peggysue2 Oct 2021 #30
I don't care if they threw me in jail TexasBushwhacker Oct 2021 #35
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