
 
 I’m not sure if this has already been brought to everyone’s attention or not, but here is the deal: 
 
 
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93wAqnPQwk&feature=player_embedded 
 
 
 
 Above is a video of a 68-year-old bus monitor named Karen Klein being verbally harassed by a group of middle schoolers on their way home from Athena Middle School in Greece, New York. Throughout the ten minute video, you can hear the kids verbally berate the woman, calling her a bitch, fatass, poor, ugly, and various other words of the like. At one point in the video, you can hear one of the kids yell, “You’re so fuckin poor you fat ass,” in which Karen responds, “I try to live by some of these words, I try and it’s really hard,” referring to the words on her purse. Now, I don’t know about you, but that broke my heart. There’s even a point in the video where one of the kids touches Karen’s arm in an attempt to make fun of her. I’m not sure why these kids would want to bully a senior citizen to tears, but I feel we should do something, or at least try. 
 
 
 
 She doesn't earn nearly enough ($15,506) to deal with some of the trash she is surrounded by. Lets give her something she will never forget, a vacation of a lifetime! 
 
 
 
 Link to the school’s website: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/athena-middle.cfm 
 
 
 
 Bus number: #784 
 
 
 
 School’s fax number: (585) 966-4039 
 
 
 
 Staff E-mails & Other Links: 
 
 
 
 http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/staff_directory.cfm 
 
 http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/contact.cfm?school=7 
 
 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Greeced=0CGoQ_AUoAg 
 
 http://pastebin.com/mMvJ4ZP8 
 
 
 
 Links to the videos: 
 
 
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipwaZos58E&feature=plcp 
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93wAqnPQwk&feature=plcp 
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBedTlo7BDs&feature=plcp 
 
 
 
 Karen’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kklein1944 
 
 ************ UPDATE 11:00 am est 6/21: This is Amanda (tammbg below). I am Karen's daughter and I just joined this campaign. I have spoken with Max and with Indiegogo and we just want to thank you so much for your support. I am at work now so can't put a picture up yet. We are completely overwhelmed with all the support, so thank you. ************* 

 Published on Jun 19, 2012 
 
 Visit the Karen Klein Anti-Bullying Foundation at http://www.karenkleinfoundation.org 
 
 
 
 Greece, NY 
 
 Bus #784 
 
 Students Involved: 
 
 Joshua Slesak 
 
 Wesley Helm 
 
 Luis Recio 
 
 Brandon Teng 
 
 
 
 NOTE: I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS, I SAW THE VIDEO ON FACEBOOK AND UPLOADED IT HERE TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW MESSED UP THESE KIDS ARE.
– Karen Klein had to put up with a shocking amount of bullying from students on the school bus where she works as a monitor—but thanks to the power of the Internet, her story has a happy ending. A 10-minute video of Klein being bullied to the point of tears went viral this week, though it's hard to get through even one minute of it as kids are heard constantly taunting and berating the New York grandmother of eight. The video was initially caught on a cellphone camera and uploaded to Facebook, then placed on YouTube by an uninvolved party—where it has so far racked up more than 1.5 million views. The disturbing video inspired an online fundraising effort to send Klein on vacation—and so far, more than $261,000 has been raised (with the amount increasing constantly). "I was trying to just ignore them, hoping they would go away and it doesn’t work," Klein tells the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. "Trust me, they didn’t go away." Though two similar videos were eventually found after the school district opened an investigation, Klein insists, "The kids weren't always that bad." She didn't report the incident, and an investigation was launched only after the video went viral yesterday; students are now being questioned by police. A particularly poignant detail: Klein is hearing-impaired and did not hear all of the jeers at the time. She makes just $15,506 a year, according to the fundraising campaign, and is considering taking her whole family on a Disney cruise with her new-found riches. The 25-year-old Reddit user who started the campaign says it has exceeded his expectations, adding, "Maybe she could retire on this."