Bullied NY bus monitor Karen Klein hopes parents see video
Posted: 06/21/2012
ROCHESTER, NY - A New York bus monitor taunted mercilessly by a group of students says she's not going to press charges, according to CNN.
Instead she just hopes the children's parents see the video that went viral online and talk to them about respect.
Karen Klein says it took "a lot of willpower" not to respond to Monday's jeers from at least four seventh- and eighth-grade boys riding the bus operated by the Greece Central School District, a suburban Rochester district.
Klein also said she wants the school district to take care of any disciplinary action, CNN reported.
The encounter was captured in a 10-minute video posted to YouTube showing the 68-year-old Klein trying to ignore the stream of profanity, insults and outright threats.
Outrage over the taunting sparked an outpouring of support. The international crowd funding site Indiegogo.com raised more than $273,000 by Thursday morning to send the grandmother of eight on a vacation.
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