FU to bus monitor getting bullied

[karinothing]

Did anyone see this? www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein

People have given almost 300K to send her on a vacation! That will be some vacation.

[pinkeggs]

I read in one of the comments that a father of one of the kids who was doing the taunting has "already suffered enough from the public attention" and will not be further punished.

Stellar parenting!

[EloiseWeenie]

Jun 21, 2012 15:26:22 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

I read in one of the comments that a father of one of the kids who was doing the taunting has "already suffered enough from the public attention" and will not be further punished.

Stellar parenting!

:@

[marie427]

Jun 21, 2012 15:26:22 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

I read in one of the comments that a father of one of the kids who was doing the taunting has "already suffered enough from the public attention" and will not be further punished.

Stellar parenting!

You have got to be kidding me.

I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the video as it will likely make me cry.

I cannot believe $300k has been raised.

[ttt]

Jun 21, 2012 15:26:22 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

I read in one of the comments that a father of one of the kids who was doing the taunting has "already suffered enough from the public attention" and will not be further punished.

Stellar parenting!

Well this explains a lot about the kid's behavior...

Where did you see that comment??

[ttt]

Here it is.

gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/school-bus-monitor-abused-students-says-she-wont-113351264--abc-news-topstories.html

The father of one of the teenage boys who was involved in the bullying says his "heart broke" to see that his son was part of the abuse, but that the boys have suffered enough with their faces made public in the video.
"My family's received death threats," Robert Helms told ABC News. "He's a 13-year-old kid. It was a stupid mistake and he's paying for it but I just think it's a little out of control."


I think this is a good lesson about never knowing just who might be watching what you're doing...

[Deleted]

I can't bear to watch the video. But I'm excited she's getting to take a fabulous trip.

[druidp]

I think death threats are excessive.

That said, I also think it's a huge misstep for this kid that his ONLY discipline in this instance came from outside influences, rather than the person who was supposed to check his behavior. Hence the death threats.

You think that's excessive, Dad? Try stepping in yourself FIRST next time, and maybe this whole thing might not have even happened.

[AJL]

Jun 21, 2012 15:26:22 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

I read in one of the comments that a father of one of the kids who was doing the taunting has "already suffered enough from the public attention" and will not be further punished.

Stellar parenting!

Bullshit!

[stephm0188]

"Two students issued apology statements to CNN, which Anderson read to Klein tonight. A student by the name of Josh wrote: “I am so sorry for the way I treated you. When I saw the video I was disgusted and could not believe I did that.” And a student by the name of Wesley said, “I feel really bad about what I did. 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.”
Anderson also notified her that Southwest Airlines reached out to CNN and has offered to send her and nine friends on an all-expense-paid trip to Disneyland."

cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/21/ac360-bullied-bus-monitor-karen-klein-i-knew-they-were-getting-off-soon-that-was-making-me-happy/

[mayflowers22]

I can't bear to watch the video but that's horrible!

[laurenpetro]

i was thinking about this on the way home. i hope one of those parents drags their kid on the Today show and makes them apologize on the air.

[shadow]

eh, I'm not too outraged by the parent's response. The kid is facing the natural consequences for his actions. We don't know how bad it is, but if your kid f'd up royally and the whole world saw it and got on him for it, you might start to feel bad for him too.

But I might be in different mood tomorrow and I'll feel the way I did earlier which was wanting to punish my own kid for eternity.

[casmgn]

I would love to see the kids go on AC360. I don't think I have ever seen him look so angry.

[cotner]

Am I misunderstanding his quote? I thought the point he was trying to make was that the death threats were too much. I haven't seen anything saying he won't be punished further. Am I reading this wrong?

And I said in a different post-I really don't have much sympathy for them recieving death threats. They threatened to cut her in the video, how is it different? Both are wrong, but crying foul on something the kids did to this woman is ridiculous.

[Deleted]

Ditto bunny, if that wasmy kid I would think I'd failed as a parent
My sister threw a house party at my neighbors house when she was 13 and they were on holidays (smart!) and she had to help thm on their farm all summer, and do volunteer work in lieu of seek g her friends for like 4 months. And I don't think what she did was nearly as bad as this.