Last Updated on September 1, 2021
Students located in at least two Colorado high schools are currently executing a mass walkout in protest of restrictive and widely criticized mask mandates as of Wednesday afternoon. Students have been seen chanting “No more masks” as mask-supporting school officials complain on social media and in press releases.
Legend High School, located in Douglas County School District RE-1, was the site of the first walkout. Students chanted “USA! USA! USA!” and held signs in support of individual liberty and Constitutional rights. Numerous vehicles that passed by the protest slowed and honked their horns in support.
The crowd grew more after this video was shot. Occasional chants of “USA,” students holding signs saying they will not comply with a mask mandate, and some adults holding signs calling masks child abuse. pic.twitter.com/fykDfjQZqz
— Jessica Gibbs (@JesstheJourno) September 1, 2021
Parents and students said masking should be a personal choice. Linda Potter attended in supporter of her freshman son Michael Davy.
Of the students, Potter said: “They are very passionate speaking with their own voice and their own constitutional right.”
— Jessica Gibbs (@JesstheJourno) September 1, 2021
Other protests followed suit, including at Thunder Ridge High School.
Students at Thunder Ridge High School in Highlands Ranch are fed up with masks. They walked out of class this morning in protest. #Denver7 pic.twitter.com/BpuLW6i5pZ
— Eric Lupher (@EricLupher7) September 1, 2021
I was just at King Soopers on Wildcat Reserve and the students from Thunder Ridge High School came walking in with their protest signs pic.twitter.com/xI7n735feD
— tc14kim (@tc14kim) September 1, 2021
Several governors have already moved to ban the forced masking of children in schools, and parents around the country have mobilized to protest against mask and vaccine mandates.
