I found this job description for bus monitor for another school and it seems simple enough. Bullied bus monitor of youtube infamy announces retirement. A video of four seventhgrade boys mercilessly taunting the 68yearold klein that went viral has turned the victim into an international fundraising juggernaut. Alberta politicians wish brian mason well after retirement. I am a bus driver also and while the bus is in motion and other kids are. Through the video you can hear them verbally berating the woman, calling her a bitch, fatass, poor, ugly, and various other words of the like. Bully prevention and awareness on the school bus first. Karen klein s daughter said her mother is unlikely to return to work as a bus monitor in greece, new york, after being taunted and threatened by four students in a video that sparked a massive.
Four students were suspended today for their role in the incident. Mrs klein had been a bus driver for 20 years, and a monitor for three and said never in all that time has she been so upset. Karen huff klein, a bus monitor for the greece school district in greece, n. Bullied bus driver teaches kindness one year later former school bus monitor karen klein stands on the porch at her home in greece, n. Emotional, widespread reaction to harassment of 68year. Yet there she was, sitting in the back of bus 784 as it rolled through the.
Student who bullied bus monitor in 2012 is now accused of forcing a specialneeds classmate to drink urine. I have lots more things i could say about what happened to karen klein on the bus that day. Four middle school students caught on camera verbally abusing their bus monitor have been suspended for a year, school district officials said friday. Student who bullied bus monitor in 2012 is now accused of. After reading the story of karen klein, the bullied bus monitor, now now rich old lady as donations pour in, i wondered why there was even a bus monitor on board of this bus. Karen klein school bus bullies suspended for a year. And the poor widow found out about this the hard way.
The bullying of karen klein is the reality for so many school bus drivers and monitors. Cruelly taunted bus monitor tells matt lauer she wants the. Im sure youve heard by now about karen klein, the nyc school bus driver who was taunted and bullied by a group of four middle school students. You may have heard about karen klein the former bus driver, now bus monitor, who was viciously bullied by a group of middle school kids on a bus in new york state back in june. Klein, who worked as a bus driver for 20 years and has been a bus monitor for. The bullying of karen klein is the reality for so many. Sidorovs campaign, lets give karen the bus monitor h klein a vacation. A former edmonton bus driver and city councillor, mason was first elected as the ndp representative for a north edmonton riding in 2000, and has been a fixture of provincial politics ever since.
This unsettling video shows a 68yearold bus monitor named karen klein being verbally bullied by a feral pack of middle schoolers, on their way home from the. The upstate new york school bus monitor who received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations after a video of her being harassed by students went viral has decided to use some of the. The video above shows the 68 year old bus monitor named karen klein being verbally abused by a group of condom worthy middle schoolers from athena middle school in greece, new york. Bullied bus monitor fund met with support, confusion. School bus monitor karen klein tells anderson cooper what she hopes happens to the boys who harassed and threatened her. Karen klein is the 68yearold school bus monitor from greece, n. A few days ago i saw the news report of those children bullying karen klein on that school bus. One of them is that karen klein litterally was just bullied in the worst way but now shes been bullied again. Teen who bullied bus monitor in 2012 forces classmate to. Her efforts resulted in development of a new program, no bus for bullies, as well as a zero tolerance company policy on bullying. The bus monitor, karen huff klein 68 at the time of the filming was an employee of the greece central school district in upstate new york. Four middle school students caught on camera verbally abusing their bus monitor have been suspended for a year, school district officials said. I watched the video again and i was just amazed at how karen klein sat there and took that assault. In 2012, a group of 7th graders filmed themselves verbally assaulting their elderly bus monitor, karen klein.
Karen klein, school bus monitor, feels sorry for kids who bullied her. The incident was videotaped by another student and included one student telling klein she didnt have any family because. Above is a video of a 68yearold bus monitor named karen klein being verbally harassed by a group of middle schoolers on their way home from athena middle. After serving 20 years as a bus driver, klein had been a bus monitor for 3 years. Edmonton bus driver fired after student left on bus during. Bus monitor karen klein, seen being tormented in a youtube video, said she didnt want the students who bullied her charged. After being gifted a lifechanging sum following a school bus bullying episode seen around the world a year ago, former bus monitor karen klein. Cnn karen klein is probably not the first face that comes to mind when you think of a poster child for bullying. The website is called lets give karen the bus monitor h klein a vacation.
Of course she couldnt bitch slap each of those kids or punch them in the throat literally, but she could have at least defended herself. A teen who verbally abused bus monitor karen klein in 2012, has now been accused of forcing a special needs student to drink urine at greece athena high in upstate new york. All bullied bus monitor karen klein wanted was an apology. Lets give karen the bus monitor h klein a vacation. Bus monitor karen klein speaks during an interview in greece, n. A school bus driver in edmonton has been fired after a yearold boy was left on his school bus monday afternoon as temperatures dipped well into the low 20s. Unfortunately, the bullies are also incredibly unperceptive and perhaps not very bright, as they confuse klein s crying. Live and indepth analysis on politics and the news that matters to you. My bus monitor was bullied cuz how she ugly is and i screamed at this.
Karen klein bullied on school bus video goes viral. Im sorry that your sons acted the way they did, mrs klein. Bus drivers and monitors across the country are being better trained on how to deal with bullying, and after the case of bullied bus monitor. When we watch the truly nasty scene that unfolded on the school bus that day, we all want to give karen klein a big hug. Bus monitor famously bullied by 7th graders gets last. For instance, i could comment on the need for support and training for bus drivers and bus monitors, and i could comment on the need for educators to teach children appropriate bus. Karen kleins school bus bullies receive death threats. After hearing a shocking story about karen klein, the bus monitor who was bullied in greece, n. The psychology of middle school kids bullying a bus monitor footnotes. They bullied her until she cried, posted the videos to youtube, and thought theyd get. A video of karen klein, a school bus attendant who was called a fat ass and a troll by a group of middle school boys on the bus, went viral recently. I very seldom get upset to the point that i would have liked to have handled the discipline of these children myself. Donations poured into website to raise money to send karen klein on vacation. The psychology of middle school kids bullying a bus monitor.
Bus monitor, grandmother karen klein bullied by students. Klein has donated an undisclosed amount of her newly acquired money to launch a. Why raising 23 of a million dollars for bus monitor karen. Karen klein 68 year old bus monitor bullied youtube. Making the bus monitor cry karen klein people i want. Bus drivers and monitors across the country are being better trained on how to deal with bullying, and after the case of bullied bus monitor karen klein, school officials may pay them more heed. Cbs news the seventh grade boys seen in a video taunting bus monitor karen klein are getting death threats, cbs news has learned. The bullying of karen klein on that school bus trap. Harassed bus monitor starts antibullying foundation cnn. Karen huff klein used to work as a school bus driver for the greece central school district for more than two decades. The viral nature of the video became the driving force behind multiple cash donations for the bullied bus driver. Bullied bus driver teaches kindness one year later today show. The veteran bus driver had strong words for the parents of the children who bullied her. Check out lets give karen the bus monitor h klein a vacation.