Sunday, June 24, 2012

Karen Klein

  • Karen Klein, a 68-year-old Rochester-area school bus monitor, is taunted mercilessly by a bunch of foul-mouthed middle-school students. Kleins restraint in the face of this revolting onslaught is extraordinary.
  • (Newsday)
  • Karen Klein is indeed a sweet, patient, loving soul. Not many would have or could have done what the 68-year-old grandmother has done, which is to endure the slings and arrows of four middle schoolers who harassed her on a school bus.
  • (Washington Examiner)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2012 — By now the entire world has heard of Karen Klein and the savage treatment she received from some teenagers. Ms.
  • (Washington Times)
  • ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- After a video showing a bus monitor being bullied and taunted for more than ten minutes, the community is standing behind Karen Klein.
  • (YNN)
  • The shocking YouTube video of students verbally abusing monitor Karen Klein highlights how difficult it can be to handle bullying in a place where it often happens: the school bus.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • 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)
  • Bus monitor Karen Klein finally received apologies from the middle schoolers who bullied her. We're definitely happy to hear that! Read on for more details. Finally there's a semi-happy ending to this heartbreaking story.
  • (Hollywood Life (blog))

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