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What's wrong with this generation? "68 year old bullied by teenagers"
June 21, 2012 at
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Jesus Christ, what's wrong with kids these days?
Karen Klein a 65 year old bus monitor is mercilessly bullied and verbally harassed by a group of middle schoolers on their way home from Athena Middle School in Greece, New York.
Here's the video link [youtube.com]. And it broke my heart.
Support has been pouring in and indiegogo [indiegogo.com] has collected over $440,000 for her!
Spare the rod...Spoil the child. I'd like to slap these kids silly.
Karen Klein a 65 year old bus monitor is mercilessly bullied and verbally harassed by a group of middle schoolers on their way home from Athena Middle School in Greece, New York.
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."
Here's the video link [youtube.com]. And it broke my heart.
Support has been pouring in and indiegogo [indiegogo.com] has collected over $440,000 for her!
Spare the rod...Spoil the child. I'd like to slap these kids silly.
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She can buy a freaking Audi R8 with all that money and run over all those little bastards, and I would just look the other way.
Heck..she could probably hire personal hitmen for every single one of them. Go to jail, pay the bail, and STILL have enough money to live an awesome life.
But at the end of the day, you have to know what you're getting into when you take a job like that and be equipped to handle it. You shouldn't just "get" a job because you used to do another job and you don't want to retire. You should be qualified to do said job. This woman was woefully unqualified to control these kids, and that was her job! If you're not an alpha dog, you will get eaten alive. There is a social aspect to dealing with children. They are like animals. You can't show fear. This woman was poorly equipped to deal with children, that's all. Again, that doesn't make it ok, but not being ok does not mean that I'm shocked or that I wouldn't have expected it.
But at the end of the day, you have to know what you're getting into when you take a job like that and be equipped to handle it. You shouldn't just "get" a job because you used to do another job and you don't want to retire. You should be qualified to do said job. This woman was woefully unqualified to control these kids, and that was her job! If you're not an alpha dog, you will get eaten alive. There is a social aspect to dealing with children. They are like animals. You can't show fear. This woman was poorly equipped to deal with children, that's all. Again, that doesn't make it ok, but not being ok does not mean that I'm shocked or that I wouldn't have expected it.
Did you ride the Short Bus to school
Most of those have Bus Monitor's on them, normally regular school buses do not, at least where we live. It's the Sped kids that have Bus Monitor's - a/k/a Short Bus
Our District's take this shit seriously and a kid can be suspended from taking the bus, a major inconvenience for working parents
Most of those have Bus Monitor's on them, normally regular school buses do not, at least where we live. It's the Sped kids that have Bus Monitor's - a/k/a Short Bus
Our District's take this shit seriously and a kid can be suspended from taking the bus, a major inconvenience for working parents
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Not even really knowing what these 'yellow buses' are since we never had them in any UK school system. I am simply taking the words at their semantic level. Arent they supposed to make sure the kids arent causing trouble and potentially distracting the bus driver.
Secondly isnt this a paid position ? Yes kids can be mean and heartless but she was being paid to keep them under control and obviously wasn't doing her job. If you cant take verbal insults would you really take a job on a school bus anyway. It would be like a vegan working at Mcdonalds and complaining about handling burgers.
She basically got rewarded for not being able to do her job properly.
Obviously there has been a failure in parenting here.
What happened can't be justified by saying that it's HER fault that she wasn't able to control the kids. The kids shouldn't have been behaving like that in the first place.
I was raised to respect my elders, and though we did some crazy shit when we were in school, we would never do something like this. It was simply unimaginable.
But where I come from, teachers and parents are allowed to punish students. If you didn't do your homework, did something wrong, were disrespectful, you got punished. And I'm talking about corporal punishment here. From getting hit on the knuckles to getting whipped on the butt.
Can you imagine the kind of backlash there would have been against this woman if she had slapped the kid and put him in his place? But you're not allowed to even touch the kids in America. Otherwise bad things happen to you. She'd have lost her job. There would have been an investigation and everyone would have said she wasn't fit to be a monitor.
Different people have various levels of tolerance. Who knows what she was going through? But there is NOTHING in this world that can justify telling a woman who's son committed suicide "your family killed themselves because they didn't want to be with you"
Children these days grow up feeling that they can do anything. There is a huge failure in parenting if children are under the impression that being disrespectful is okay.
When I was a kid, I was punished when I did something wrong. These kids are not.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
On a side note- the collection for Karen has reached $480,000. God does indeed work in mysterious ways.
It's okay now, you can let it all out
She basically got rewarded for not being able to do her job properly.
If she was a bus driver during those times then she should have known how to deal with kids...obvously she learned nothing driving the bus...because all the good bus drivers know how to handle the kids.
Skill set???
It's a gov't job on a bus!
It's a gov't job on a bus!
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If she was a bus driver during those times then she should have known how to deal with kids...obvously she learned nothing driving the bus...because all the good bus drivers know how to handle the kids.