Posted on 06/23/2012 11:39:28 AM PDT by Graybeard58
All bullied bus monitor Karen Klein wanted was an apology. Now she's getting that … and then some.
Police say the four boys who tormented the 68-year-old on a school bus in upstate New York earlier this week have taken responsibility for their actions. The students are also saying they're sorry.
"I feel really bad about what I did," one said in a statement to CNN. "I wish I had never done those things. If that had happened to someone in my family, like my mother or grandmother, I would be really mad at the people who did that to them."
Another said, "When I saw the video I was disgusted and could not believe I did that. I am sorry for being so mean, and I will never treat anyone this way again."
The video of the seventh-graders cursing, taunting and physically threatening a crying Klein has become a rallying point against bullying. It has also prompted an overwhelming outpouring of support for the longtime school bus worker.
An online campaign to fund a vacation for Klein had grown to more than $500,000 by Friday afternoon, far surpassing the initial $5,000 goal. Max Sidorov, the Toronto man who started the fund two days ago, said he did so partly because he was bullied himself as a child.
"Maybe we can send her on a great, early retirement," Sidorov told The Associated Press.
Then Anderson Cooper surprised the grandmother of eight on CNN Thursday night with an all-expenses paid trip for nine people to Disneyland from Southwest Airlines. The Walt Disney Co. made the same offer for Disney World.
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I gave her 25 bucks I was glad to do it.
Would somebody bully me please? LOL!
Make the kids walk to school.
I’ll go with it being a hoax.
The old lady, the kids, the parents and the guy who set up the fund are going to split the 500k and laugh all the way to the bank.
I think its hilarious the little turds are getting a taste if justice.
I'll go with you are a clueless moron who has no clue what he is talking about.
How wonderful life must be for someone as small and cynical as you. Gos help your soul.
Correction;
God help your soul.
I honestly didn’t believe Uncle Slayton was being serious with his post.
“Then Anderson Cooper surprised the grandmother of eight on CNN Thursday night with an all-expenses paid trip for nine people to Disneyland from Southwest Airlines. The Walt Disney Co. made the same offer for Disney World.”
Maybe the can fool you and Anderson Cooper, but they can’t fool me.
All set-up just a little too well.
Then I read #11
Kids are getting the justice and fear of God put in them they deserve. One Father was interviewed as saying that he was surprised his son would do such a thing and that he might get him psychiatric help. Pathetic he doesn’t see it’s his inability to parent. I can’t say what I’d do if my kids did that because there’s no way in hell they ever would.
In this age with so many camera phones, the You Tube and wall to wall pointless news coverage on the cable news networks, there is plenty of room and opportunity to pull a hoax.
However, I do not doubt that kids can be that cruel, but I will never be surprised by the length people will go to pull a hoax, especially when they can scam money.
She would have to be an incredible actress to fake those years but I’ll be honest I wish I would have though of this first.
The scope of the scam would have to be vast, for it to be an utter success like this. Not all the kids on the bus were in on the bullying, and it only takes one envious soul to help spill the beans.
Someone should carefully watch the kids’ means, just to be sure. But I doubt it. Now that it’s in the news I’d anticipate copy cats, however.
If you object to being treated like an ass, don’t act like one.
That’s about the... I can’t even wrap my head... Oh never mind. Good grief.
The Toronto guy who started the fund was in on it too?
How did the “hoaxers” know anyone would do anything like that for her?
This was documented with video tape and the bus driver. The woman who was harassed was a monitor, the kids have confessed.
Of course there’s always the possibility that all the kids, the driver, the monitor and the fund raiser in Canada were all in on the scam.
Highly, highly unlikely.
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