A woman who laughed at a student while he talked about his grandmother’s COVID-19 death at a school board meeting is being dragged across the internet after a video clip of the incident has gone viral.
The meeting was held on Tuesday night in Rutherford County, Tennessee, where a school board was discussing whether students should be mandated to wear masks amid rising Covid-19 cases and the return of in-person classes.
In the video, Grady Knox, a junior at Central Magnet School explained why wearing a mask could prevent the spread of Covid-19, especially to his older family members that are more vulnerable to the disease. “If I get COVID, I’m going to bring it to my family and I talk to my grandparents a lot,” the student said.