Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Karen Klein

  • School bus monitor Karen Klein, the 68-year-old grandmother ruthlessly bullied by middle school students, will meet with the man who started a fundraising campaign thats generated more than $655,000 since video of the attack went viral last week.
  • (GlobalPost)
  • Nobody actually wants to burn a witch. Humanity, Twain wrote, is "governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Greece bus monitor Karen Klein will soon meet face-to-face with the Toronto nutritionist who started up a fundraising campaign thats raised more than $650,000 since last week to send her on the vacation of her life.
  • (WGRZ TV)
  • 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)
  • It was just a week ago that Karen Klein was sitting on a bus enduring the teasing and taunts of a group of kids with a grace that wouldnt be recognized until days later, when a video of the incident went viral, People reports.
  • (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  • Maybe it was the tragic trifecta of bangs, glasses, and braces that marked me a prime target on bus rides to Northmont Middle School in the fall of 1997.
  • (christianitytoday)
  • 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)
  • The taunts were unusually vicious: The boys mocked Karen Kleins appearance, her age, her clothing, her family and whatever else they could go after, all laced with potty-mouth epithets.
  • (USA Today)
  • 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)
  • Whats next for Karen Klein, the 68-year-old school bus monitor from Greece, N.Y. , who was famously seen on video being mercilessly taunted and insulted by middle schoolers? Maybe a complimentary trip to Walt Disney World. Or Disneyland. Or a Disney cruise.
  • (USA Today)

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