Karen Huff Klein
This broke my heart and is incredibly hard to watch all the way through, but it's also something that desperately needs to be shared. Triggers apply to this video for intense bullying, verbal taunts, inappropriate sexual commentary, swearing, and references to suicide.
It is VERY painful viewing.
This is a video that's gone viral of Karen Huff Klein, a 68 year old bus monitor in the Greece Central School District of Rochester, NY being mercilessly bullied by a group of middle school students.
Amongst taunts about her weight, her age, and her financial situation are genuine threats of violence and massively inappropriate sexual comments. What's most upsetting is that the bullying drives Ms. Klein to tears and NO ONE STEPPED IN TO STOP IT.
I remember plenty of bus rides home as a teenager where bullying was a frequent occurance and plenty of days at school that had similar verbal taunting and this video both made me want to cry and filled me with intense rage against this pack of children and thier cruelty.
The school district has released a statement that they are attempting to identify all the perpetuators and that all will face strong disciplinary action for thier behavior. And, with any luck, thier parents are going to see this and go ballistic because I would be horrified and LIVID if my child treated anyone this way, let alone a 68 year old woman.
If interested, this is the school's contact page, and this is the school's main website.
Please share this story so that people can see that bullying isn't just kid stuff. Bullying is real, disgustingly widespread, and horrifying.
It is VERY painful viewing.
Click to viewThis is a video that's gone viral of Karen Huff Klein, a 68 year old bus monitor in the Greece Central School District of Rochester, NY being mercilessly bullied by a group of middle school students.
Amongst taunts about her weight, her age, and her financial situation are genuine threats of violence and massively inappropriate sexual comments. What's most upsetting is that the bullying drives Ms. Klein to tears and NO ONE STEPPED IN TO STOP IT.
I remember plenty of bus rides home as a teenager where bullying was a frequent occurance and plenty of days at school that had similar verbal taunting and this video both made me want to cry and filled me with intense rage against this pack of children and thier cruelty.
The school district has released a statement that they are attempting to identify all the perpetuators and that all will face strong disciplinary action for thier behavior. And, with any luck, thier parents are going to see this and go ballistic because I would be horrified and LIVID if my child treated anyone this way, let alone a 68 year old woman.
If interested, this is the school's contact page, and this is the school's main website.
Please share this story so that people can see that bullying isn't just kid stuff. Bullying is real, disgustingly widespread, and horrifying.