Bus bullies get their punishment

Associated Press
Posted: July 01, 2012

NEW YORK - Four seventh-grade boys from upstate New York who were caught on video mercilessly taunting a 68-year-old bus monitor have received their punishment.

The school system in the Rochester suburb of Greece says it will suspend the middle school students from school and from using regular bus transportation for a year for bullying Karen Klein.

The students will be transferred to a special alternative education program because the district is legally required to give the students an education. Each student will also be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens.

They will be able to reapply to middle school after they complete the discipline.

In a statement, the school system said each of the students involved admitted to wrongdoing, accepted the consequences and agreed to let the district publicly release the terms of their disciplinary action.

The cellphone video uploaded to YouTube by a fellow student drew millions of viewers. The video shows Klein trying her best to ignore a stream of profanity, insults, and outright threats.

Eventually, she appears to break down in tears.

A fund drive that began with a goal of $5,000 to help Klein take a vacation raised more than $667,304 as of Friday.

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