Friday, June 22, 2012

Karen Klein

  • Not even a half-million dollars can erase the pain. Not yet.
  • (Washington Post)
  • People of the Internet, you did it: In less than 48 hours you managed to raise more than half a million dollars to send bullied bus driver Karen Klein on a vacation.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Karen Klein, has said she doesnt want serious punishments levied upon the boys who bullied her on a school bus, but despite her calls for restraint, a number of the boys and their families are receiving death threats, CBS News reports.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • As of the writing of this post, an Indiegogo campaign on Klein's behalf just cracked $500,000 — yes, as in half-a-million dollars.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Earlier this week a video depicting Greece, N.Y. school bus monitor Karen Klein being maliciously verbally abused by the students she was watching over went viral, sparking national outrage and leading to a campaign on website Indiegogo.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • When Anderson Cooper asked Karen Klein, the now famous bullied bus monitor, if she ever expected the outpouring of support that has so far raised over half a million dollars for her, she responded: No, never.
  • (Gawker)
  • The monitor, Karen H.
  • (New York Times)
  • Karen Klein tells TMZ she DOES NOT accept the apologies issued by the kids who taunted her on a NY school bus claiming I think they can do better. Two of the devil children penned letters of apology to the 68-year-old bus monitor ..
  • (TMZ.com)
  • The horror of ruthless bullying reduced a 68-year-old bus monitor in upstate New York to tears and made the video of her torment viral on the Internet. It may also have been a tipping point for the growing phenomenon known as crowdfunding.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • Karen Huff Klein, the 68-year-old bus monitor bullied by a group of middle school kids, is eying over a half a million dollars in donations, thanks to a fundraising website.
  • (Examiner)

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