Bus Monitor Karen Klein Says She Wont Accept Bully Kids Apologies

Had it not been for a video the teen tormentors shot on a cell phone and then uploaded online, no one would have known Karen Klein’s name – or the humiliation she suffered on a school bus in upstate New York.

No wonder that she doesn’t believe a single word of the apologies they already sent out to the media.

Klein is a 68-year-old grandmother who worked as a bus monitor for 20 years before she took up her current job (also as a bus monitor) 3 years ago.

Earlier this week, during one of her daily rounds, a group of kids, described as “feral teens” in the press, picked on her and bullied in unimaginable ways.

You can find the video online easily because it went viral in a matter of course, causing an outpour of outrage towards the kid bullies and of support towards Klein.

Speaking with Anderson Cooper on his CNN show, the bus monitor says she doesn’t accept two of the apologies two of the bullies sent out to the press, as the video below will confirm.

She has every reason to not to so: the apologies were sent out to the press and not to her personally, she explains. Moreover, she knows the kids in question and she believes that, at this point, they would say anything to get out of trouble.

“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. I am sorry for being so mean and I will never treat anyone this way again,” one of the boys says.

Klein is convinced he’s only saying it because the video went viral and not because he really means it or there was a lesson learned in the experience.

In the same interview, she also says she never expected something like to happen to her, after all these years of being a bus monitor and never giving anyone reason to find fault with her.

She’s similarly in disbelief when it comes to the money that was raised by means of an online campaign started by those who felt she’d been severely wronged and needed some form of compensation for it.

“It sounds too good to be true,” she says when Cooper asks her what she plans to do with the money raised.

However, she has a use for another surprise gift: a trip to Disneyland in California for 9, all expenses paid. This is one grandma that will make her grandchildren very happy.

Below is the video. It’s almost painful to watch an old woman fighting back tears when she tries and fails to find an explanation for being so viciously bullied – and then shamed online.



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