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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bus monitor Karen Klein's tormentors suspended for year, donations on her behalf = $670,000 [View all]
A radio station in Boston held an event in Karen Klein's honour on Thursday
Four US students who gained infamy after a video of their verbal abuse towards a bus monitor went viral have been suspended from school for a year.
Footage of the 12- and 13-year-olds taunting Karen Klein has been viewed some 8 million times.
The school system in the New York state town of Greece says the students must also complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens.
Mrs Klein, 68, said she did not want the boys to face criminal charges.
She told the Associated Press last week that others should not harass or threaten the students.
"That's not the way to go about things," she said. "They're just kids."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18656095
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Bus monitor Karen Klein's tormentors suspended for year, donations on her behalf = $670,000 [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Jun 2012
OP
who said life was fair? yet it's usually unfair in the opposite direction. i'm pleased a woman
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#3
not only has she been promised the money, corporations have stepped up like Disney
Liberal_in_LA
Jun 2012
#9
In a sense you are right in terms of harm done, but it is not excessive in terms...
aikoaiko
Jul 2012
#23