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Bullied Bus Monitor's Take Breaks $500K Mark

But even with new riches, Karen Klein has harsh words for bullies

By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 22, 2012 11:11 AM CDT

(Newser) – She may officially be $500,000 richer, but bullied school bus monitor Karen Klein is unimpressed with the apologies she's gotten so far from the foul-mouthed kids caught bullying her in a now-infamous video. "Of course he's going to say anything," Klein said of one apology to Anderson Cooper at CNN. "Josh, he always has a smirk on his face ... I don't think I would believe anything Josh has to say and I didn't want to talk to him today." While Klein said she "doesn't think" she'll press charges, she does want to see the kids involved punished. "I would like them to be kept off the bus for at least a year and forbidden to play any sports at least for a year. Someone mentioned community service and I thought that was a pretty good idea, too."

Meanwhile, the indiegogo campaign to raise $5,000 to send Klein on vacation continues to surge, rocketing from $260,000 yesterday past the half-a-million mark (and growing and growing) today. "I still can't believe it," Klein said of the the support. And at the end of the CNN interview, Cooper told Klein that Southwest Airlines has offered to send her and nine others to Disney World in Florida for three nights. "Wow, that's too much," she said, amazed. "I don't feel like I've done anything, you know?"

Karen Klein says she would like to see the kids who bullied her on a school bus last Monday punished. But she's also amazed at all the support she has received from around the world.
Karen Klein says she would like to see the kids who bullied her on a school bus last Monday punished. But she's also amazed at all the support she has received from around the world.   (Syamihere)
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Riffran
Jun 24, 2012 8:49 PM CDT
I would donate money to see them little shits in orange jumpsuits picking up trash on the highway...or better yet, make them work in a nursing home wiping up shit off the bed ridden, under the direct supervision of a cop with a tazer
teamhoneybadger
Jun 23, 2012 9:10 AM CDT
The bullies apologizing is a way for them to mitigate collateral damage, i'm glad, Mrs Klein isn't falling for it.  To the bullies:  Your all still little douchebags, and I hope this follows you for the rest of your lives. 
chillette
Jun 22, 2012 2:58 PM CDT
The message has been sent that the most important issue on a school bus is not the safety of children but the comfort of the monitor who doesn't bother to monitor. When one of these donating morons have a kid who is beat up on a school bus while the monitor did nothing I guess they will finally wake up. The funny thing about this whole anti bullying campaign is that the same groups yelling the loudest were the ones who started protecting the bullies. In the past students who assaulted other students or staff were removed and sent to separate classes or even schools for troubled kids. . There were also truant officers assigned to schools who use to contact parents of absent or classroom criminals. All of that was stopped  thanks to the same crowd crying about bullying. Calling someone fat and stupid does not rise to the same level as assault. This could have been handled if the lazy lump had done her job and filed incident reports against these kids. This money could have been donated to help veterans, sent to the Innocence Project, or sent to an environmental group fighting to maintain clean water. Instead it is sent to some lazy woman along with the wrong message. This country has turned into a gigantic insane asylum.
 

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