The four students caught on video an elderly bus monitor have been suspended for a year from their school in Greece, N.Y.
As part of their punishment, the seventh-grade students will also have to serve 50 hours of community service with senior citizens, according to CNN.
The profanity-laced video, posted on YouTube on June 19 and since garnering over 8 million hits, shows the students taunting, poking and using very harsh language against 68-year-old Karen Klein. Klein doesn’t fight back, despite the students’ brutal insults.
Klein told the Associated Press that the students will still be attending an alternative school, and that they “wont be at home doing nothing.”
She also told the AP she approved of the punishment, and that she intends to meet with the four students to ask them why they did what they did.
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Community service however should be ordered in an elderly home with supervision. Perhaps there they could learn some respect and prove themselves as redeemable.
"HANDLE" the situation?...... she's just lucky these thugs didn't take it to the next level. I think she will now voluntarily RETIRE......
Thugs take it to the next level? LOL. They are a bunch of school kids and I saw kids behave like that time and again when I was that age. The fact that she let them do it to her is rather unusual for an adult, don't you think? She should have made the bus driver take those kids back to the school, like they also did when I was that age.
This 78 yr old women probably thought she could be helpful and feel useful at the same time. Sounds to me like you also may have a respect issue, if you can't grasp that fact.
Is everyone going insane?........ Did you even see the video or read the story?
It's not HER that needs correcting, it's those kids. It seems to me the school board doled out a good measure of the discipline that they needed. Hopefully the year off will do them good. Maybe help them change their ways.
Frankly, you and I both know that she shouldn't have been on this bus and I shudder to think what would have happened if she witnessed a young child being bullied. I have compassion, but I'm also a realist. If someone walked into a prison and was harassed, would you not have said "Shouldn't you have expected that? Perhaps you are not cut out for this." You don't think it is a little ridiculous that she has gotten close to $600,000 in donations? I only wish a child being bullied could receive the same.
So I'm not sure what we are arguing about.....because those kids were dead wrong and paying the appropriate price. That woman did nothing wrong and deserves no reprimand from anyone.