Karen Huff Klein, a bus monitor for the Greece School District in Greece, N.Y., is receiving an outpouring of support after a ten-minute video of her enduring vicious bullying while watching over students on a bus ride home was uploaded to YouTube.
WARNING: The above video contains explicit language and may be upsetting.
Now, as awful as this was, there was a silver lining in not only the universal condemnation of the actions of these kids, but also in a call for support for this poor woman.
Her name is Karen Klein, and if you are so compelled, please feel free to reach out to offer support. She has been a widow for 17 years, has lived in the same town she grew up in and is about to have her 50th high school reunion in the same school district, and deserves so much better than the actions shown by those in this video. Let's show her that there are still good people out there...
In the disturbing video, the children can be heard yelling at Klein, calling her an "ugly fat ass" and telling the widow, "you don't have a family because they all killed themselves because they don't want to be near you."
Now, under pressure from the local community, the Greece School District and Greece Police Department are launching investigations into the incident, telling WHEC-TV that the children involved will "face disciplinary action."
The Reddit call to arms has generated many comments showing support, including one that summarized a local radio show's admiration at Klein's lack of response. The call to arms also included an email address in case users wanted to reach out to Klein.
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Julio Artuz
15-year-old Julio Artuz in November 2011 spoke out about his special needs teacher bullying him, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/julio-artuz-15-records-teacher-verbally-abusing_n_1097166.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">filming an encounter with the teacher at Bankbridge Regional School in New Jersey.</a>
Ohio Boy
A 10-year-old Ohio boy in April 2012 brought a BB gun to school <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/ohio-school-bb-gun-bullies_n_1438333.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">to fend off bullies.</a>
Sawyer Rosenstein
New Jersey student Sawyer Rosenstein received <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/nj-bullys-paralyzing-punc_n_1435176.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">a $4.2 million settlement</a> from the Ramsey school district years after a bully's punch paralyzed him for life.
Female Students
In March 2012, two female students from Mooresville High School in North Carolina were suspended after another student used her cellphone to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/mooresville-high-school-bus-bullying-video_n_1373894.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">film the girls viciously bullying a male student on a school bus.</a>
Lennon Baldwin
15-year-old Lennon Baldwin, a freshman at Morristown High School in New Jersey, committed suicide in April 2012, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/lennon-baldwin-15-year-old-commits-suicide-after-being-bullied_n_1398147.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">and police are investigating whether bullying was to blame.</a>
David Pecoraro
David Pecoraro, a math teacher at Beach Channel High School in New York, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/19/david-pecoraro-serial-spi_n_1287929.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">was reassigned to an administrative office </a>after video of him swatting at and spitting on a student surfaced online in February 2012.
Kaleb Kula
Kaleb Kula, a sixth grader with autism, was brutally beaten to the ground at his Maryland school bus stop in January 2012 while his peers stood by to watch -- <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/kaleb-kula-autistic-6th-g_n_1222068.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">and catch the act on camera.</a>
Warren Lewis
Warren Lewis, a Houston teenager accused of shooting a classmate in the leg at school, said in January 2012 that he was defending himself from a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/teen-in-texas-school-shoo_0_n_1200385.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">group of boys who had been bullying him.</a>
Phoebe Prince
A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after relentless bullying,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/28/phoebe-prince-bullying-la_n_1172755.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink"> was settled for $225,000 in December 2011.</a>
<strong>Correction:</strong> A previous version of this slide incorrectly stated the date of settlement.
Restraining Order
Kentucky mother Joy Furman claims her 9-year-old daughter has been bullied for two years at school, and seeks a restraining order against a fourth-grade boy she accused of tormenting her daughter, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/girls-mom-seeks-restraini_n_1450299.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">kicking her in the chest and chasing her with scissors.</a>
Ashlynn Connor
In November 2011, 10-year-old Ashlynn Connor hanged herself in her closet by a scarf, just a few weeks after she told her mother she was being bullied at Ridge Farm Elementary School in Illinois <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/ashlynn-conner-ten-year-o_n_1092683.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">and her mother denied the girl's request to be home schooled.</a>
Kelly Chafins, Christy Wilt
Kelly Chafins and Christy Wilt of Miami Trace Middle School in Ohio were caught on tape in the fall of 2011 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/kelly-chaffins-christy-wi_n_1081980.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">verbally abusing a 14-year-old special needs student.</a> Chaffins resigned and Wilt was scheduled to undergo a probation period as well as eight hours of mandatory training in "how to recognize child abuse and stop bullying."
Patty Fabian
In October 2011, 15-year-old Patty Fabian was left with black eyes and a broken nose after <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/patty-fabian-15-year-old-bullied_n_1079761.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">a peer at Garland High School in Texas viciously assaulted her.</a> Video of the assault was posted on YouTube while Fabian was rushed to the hospital.
Rebecca Arellano, Haileigh Adams
In the fall of 2011, Rebecca Arellano was crowned Patrick Henry High School's first lesbian homecoming king. The next day, her girlfriend Haileigh Adams was crowned queen. Despite widespread support from the school and the couple's friends and family, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/rebecca-arellano-haileigh_n_1070436.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">the couple subsequently received waves of hateful phone calls and emails.</a>
Nicolette Taylor
In the fall of 2011, 13-year-old Nicolette Taylor from Long Island <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/nicolette-taylor-13-year-_n_1007371.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">decided to get plastic surgery</a> after enduring online harassment and name-calling multiple times a week because of the shape of her nose.
Jamey Rodemeyer
Taunted since grade school for hanging out with girls, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer told his parents things were finally getting better since high school started. Meanwhile, on a blog his parents didn't know about, he posted increasingly desperate notes ruminating on suicide, bullying, homophobia and pop singer Lady Gaga. A few days later, he hanged himself outside his home in suburban Buffalo, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/jamey-rodemeyers-suicide-_n_987054.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">quickly gaining a fame like that described in one of his idol's songs. </a>
Justin Aaberg
15-year-old Justin Aaberg committed suicide in July 2010 after what his mother Tammy Aaberg says was relentless anti-gay bullying at his Minnesota school. Tammy Aaberg has since gathered signatures for a petition and marched to the office of her congresswoman, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/tammy-aaberg-mother-of-te_n_966455.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, to call on Bachmann to publicly address gay bullying.</a>
Zachary
When video of 15-year-old Zachary being beaten over and over again by a classmate went viral in October 2011, the school told the gay teen that he need to "tone [himself] down." The school's handling of the attack outraged Zach's mother Becky Collins, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/teen-speaks-out-after-vic_n_1095874.html?ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">who couldn't understand why officials would say her son needed to change, instead of the bullies. </a>
Karen Huff Klein, a bus monitor for the Greece School District in Greece, N.Y., is receiving an outpouring of support after a ten-minute video of her enduring vicious bullying while watching over stud...
Karen Huff Klein, a bus monitor for the Greece School District in Greece, N.Y., is receiving an outpouring of support after a ten-minute video of her enduring vicious bullying while watching over stud...
More than 13,000 online strangers raised over $300,000 for the bullied bus monitor Karen Klein, who was verbally abused by middle schoolers in a shocking...
After the upsetting video of Greece School District bus monitor Karen Klein being viciously bullied by the children she was watching over went viral Wednesday,...
I can't shake the feeling that Karen Klein should take $15,506 and give it back to the people of Greece, New York, who paid her to monitor children on a school bus. Someone should have been monitoring the kids on that bus. And clearly it wasn't Karen Klein.
No... this is the result of children watching their parents judge and be mean to others and being heartless to their own children. Children learn by what their parents ARE and DO not by what they are told and how they are disciplined. if you raise your children with love and respect , they become loving and respectfull
Teal-Nina: No... this is the result of children watching their parents
The way to support her is to give her a crapload of money?
What does she need $560,000 for?
Send her a letter
Call her
Tell her that you're in her corner,
that you're sorry that she has to go through this
But please, let's not replace empathy, and compassion
with opening your pocketbook
and sending her money just for being a victim
She's not the only victim of bullying
and she won't be the last
$560,000.... that makes it all better
IslamicPacifist: The way to support her is to give her a
In our culture, she will know that money is the way people as a public, can often best show their care and support, if the money enables her to retire from this onerous job, that is a great gift of care and support
Teal-Nina: In our culture, she will know that money is the
Those kids were fully aware of the harm they were causing Karen, and yet like "gang mentality" they became more verbally vicious and disgusting in their taunting of this elderly woman ... and to think not ONE person spoke up in her defense - not one! Karen gets a metal in my book for hanging onto her wits during this horrible experience which very well could have turned frightfully physical - so glad that didn't happen. I want these kids, every single one of them, to be punished by the law, the school, and their parents! I want them to SHOW the world in ONE YEAR'S TIME how they have grown-up and become socially responsible individuals. I also want each of them to apologize to Karen - sincerely. They ought to be ashamed of themselves! Karen, you deserve a break in life ... please take the money raised for you and ENJOY the rest of your life. Peace and Happiness to you Karen.
AngelsOnEarth: Those kids were fully aware of the harm they were
The lead bully is the girl who keeps egging on the boys. They are pathetic human beings and I am quite certain their parents are just as pathetic. These teenagers do not show that they are capable of one counce of empathy. Can you imagine how they treat other students and teachers in their school? They should receive severe punishments. After all, they threatened bodily harm to this courageous woman. They should be expelled from school and much, much more. They should be humiliated in the same way they cowardly humiliated Karen Klein.
pssadipiombino: The lead bully is the girl who keeps egging on
I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE!!! OUTRAGED!!!
KAREN- YOU HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF SUPPORT AND WELL WISHERS!
WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE AND HOPEFULLY SOMETHING WILL BE MADE BETTER BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU. THAT IS A REASON TO SMILE! :)
cris11r: I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE EVERYONE ON THE SAME
This is why I have lost hope in my generation and those younger than me. So vicious and cruel. And so incredibly stupid. With my generation being technology oriented to the point of dependence, I would hope some of us would realize that what gets posted in the Internet stays in the Internet, for a very very long time. People need to learn how to at least show respect!
IndependentBurgeoise: This is why I have lost hope in my generation
Want to stop a bully?Punch the idiot right in the nose!As hard as you can.It's an easy part of the body to break.Watch the bully cry like a little bitch.Or you can just kick as hard as you can in the groin.if they're bigger,and you're worried about the size,pick up a hard,solid object and hit them with that.A rock or steel pipe works wonders on a head,for real!Fight back,people!
Michael_Steaphens: Want to stop a bully?Punch the idiot right in the
Absolutely heartbreaking..just glad this came out and God bless her for being so humble about this sad situation. Those kids NEED to be punished to the extreme!!!
nocturnalhye: Absolutely heartbreaking..just glad this came out and God bless her
Ok, so this was not the only time these "children" behaved like this. And they are not sorry they did it, they are sorry that the behavior was shared. Listen closely the comments were about, being fat, poor, unaccepted. The threats were enoough to suspend them. Respect? That have no idea. Out the mouths of babes. A sad commentary on what our society has produced. It not just about the boys it also about our culture.
lizbet1207: Ok, so this was not the only time these "children"
Kids can be horribly cruel. Sadly this is the kind of bullying I endured on the bus in middle school. I had my hair burned with cigarettes and my suede jacket ruined with magic markers. This was in 1975.
MagicalPossibilities: Kids can be horribly cruel. Sadly this is the kind
Ohhh, that is so sad that happened to you ... I'm so sorry to hear about that, but I'm glad you shared your story. People need to know ... perhaps all this attention to this incident, and your sharing the horror that happened to you will bring more awareness and help stomp out bullying. I pray for that. Karen's story and yours just go to show that "some" kids make a choice to treat another person cruelly simply because they go along with the "gang mentality" of their peers without caring of the consequences. IF the tables were turned on the bullies like this, I imagine they would be hurt too.
AngelsOnEarth: Ohhh, that is so sad that happened to you ...
That's a good thought, but if I were her, I wouldn't want them to know where I live. I would be in fear for the rest of my life. That's how much they scared me!! You could hear the leader in the video and HER sheep, it was freaky!!
coryd: That's a good thought, but if I were her, I
these kids are absolute monsters, obviously with no structured discipline at home. The parents are 100% to blame for their behavior. These kids have ZERO respect, and they were obviously brought up that way. I sat through this video literally with my jaw dropped.
Logic4Life: these kids are absolute monsters, obviously with no structured discipline
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