--- title: Dad Uses Drone to Watch Daughter Go to School description: Dad has a drone film his 8 year old daughter who wanted to walk to school alone in Knoxville Tennessee canonical: https://time.com/3831431/dad-daughter-drone-school/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-22T16:05:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:00.056Z og:title: Most Embarrassing Dad Ever Has Drone Follow Daughter to School og:description: Dad has a drone film his 8 year old daughter who wanted to walk to school alone in Knoxville Tennessee og:url: https://time.com/3831431/dad-daughter-drone-school/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Most Embarrassing Dad Ever Has Drone Follow Daughter to School twitter:description: Dad has a drone film his 8 year old daughter who wanted to walk to school alone in Knoxville Tennessee twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # World's Most Embarrassing Dad Has Drone Follow Daughter to School  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 22, 2015 4:05 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 22, 2015 4:05 PM UTC When his eight-year-old daughter wanted to walk to school by herself, this dad used a drone to make sure she got there safe. Chris Early of Knoxville, Tenn., who owns a video production company, [told WVLT Local 8](http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/Dad-watches-over-daughter-with-drone-300856231.html) he could see her classmates looking up and pointing at the drone: “I’m sure Katie was just like, ‘Oh it’s just my dad!'” Katie [said](http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/Dad-watches-over-daughter-with-drone-300856231.html), “I was like ‘uh, wow.'” He [told the news station](http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/Dad-watches-over-daughter-with-drone-300856231.html) he just did it for fun and to “let her know that daddy’s always watching.” Just wait until she starts dating. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3831431/dad-daughter-drone-school/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3831431/dad-daughter-drone-school/"},"headline":"World's Most Embarrassing Dad Has Drone Follow Daughter to School","datePublished":"2015-04-22T16:05:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:00.056Z","description":"Just wait until she starts dating","url":"https://time.com/3831431/dad-daughter-drone-school/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family & Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3831431/dad-daughter-drone-school/","name":"World's Most Embarrassing Dad Has Drone Follow Daughter to School"}}]}] ```