who posted that video harrassing the school bus monitor. This was on the morning news.
"The four middle schoolers whose verbal abuse of bus monitor Karen Klein caused worldwide outrage have been suspended from school for a year.
According to the Greece Central School District, the families of each of the boys agreed to the suspensions following individual meetings this week.
Karen Klein commented on the suspension, saying, "I think it's a little overboard, but I'm not gonna fight it, that's for sure."
The students will attend the district's Reengagement Center, an alternative education program located in a non-district facility. According to the district, the students will keep on-track academically and be able to perform community service. The District said they will perform 50 hours of community service." YNN News.
http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/589941/students-behind-bus-monitor-harassment-suspended-for-next-school-year/
Saw this on the news last night. I don't think it is too severe what they got. In fact, more community hours than 50 would hurt them. If they are out of district do parents provide the transportation, I hope?
Let every day be a good day!
I read "some" of that...am glad to read here they will be in the alternative school...as I thought a year was long...and scarey for their education.
Probably this by the school in exchange for a criminal record.
I do know the alternative schools are sometimes full of kids who do not want to be in school any more...and those who are there who are trying but messed up...have a rough time not becoming one of the "drop out wannabe's".
I'm glad the parents or standing behind their kids...but also supporting the school.
I hope they have learned a hard lesson about following the pack...and abuse of any kind.
Posynut_NY_zone4:If they are out of district do parents provide the transportation, I hope?
The students are also banned from the busses so, yes, the parents will have to drive them.
There's been nearly a million dollars donated to that fund the guy from Toronto started for the victim ...
GiddeyUp: There's been nearly a million dollars donated to that fund the guy from Toronto started for the victim ...
Yes. He was here to visit this past Monday. They have also had meetings on the school steps against bulleying and a special barbeque. Something in the news almost everyday. Amazing how one small suburban school district in the area can become the center of attention worldwide. I wonder if anyone thought they were referring to Greece the country and not the town of Greece, NY.
We also have a Paris, Wasaw, Rome, and Amsterdam NY. Probably a few others as well.
I don't think that the punishment for the boys is too overboard, if the are allowed to cont their education. I only wish that the bus driver of that bus had stepped up, but what are parents, teachers, anyone else employed by school districts to do these days in regards to punishing the students! There has to be some middle of the road reached about how to discipline unruly and bullying students. If you touch any kids you get sued or put in jail! What can anyone do to let the kids know that they don't have the upper hand, as they probably think they do! That is a big problem. I can remember seeing a teacher smack someone w/ a ruler for being unruly, or put them in the corner, etc. One teacher I had used to make you put your chewing gum on your nose if she caught you w/ it! Try that nowadays to anyone and the teacher would be disciplined and fired!
Can't believe that money for the bus monitor is up to 1 million!
--Marg, Lancaster Co, PA
margba: Can't believe that money for the bus monitor is up to 1 million!
$673,037 as of today with 21days left to donate. The orginial goal was 5,000 so that she could afford a vacation. her first thoughts are that she will use the money for her family, invest some and also retire. It's all so overwelming, things change almost daily.
She can retire in style and that will be good for her. A bus monitor's job is not an easy one anymore than cafeteria monitor is or hall monitor. Kids get nasty to monitors; kids don't want to be told what they can not do or what appropriate behavior is. They resent authority today by anyone. And the school personnel can't touch the kids or they are up on charges by parents. I remember when parents would back the school personnel for disciplining their kids, retaining them to repeat a grade, or whatever. The parents would feel the school made the right decisions. Now today they go against the school about everything.
A ton of teaching and nonteaching school personnel retired from our district this year. They had good incentive I bet between the state and school so they went for it.
Catsbirds....are the parents arguing the punishment of the kids? I thought they seemed to be supporting the system...I'm not questioning your info...just wondering.
I as a parent and grandparent want to believe my children will do what they were taught is right when they are not around me....but that delusion has been burst a few times in my "carreer"...LOL So all I can do is teach them....correct them...and pray they will do the right thing. It is not "always" the fault of the parents. IMO
And yes...the lack of our allowance to diciplin has made a crisis w/ some of the children being raised today.
Linda, the parents support the system. There were some reports on the news and stories covering parents reactions at first. Shortly after, threats to the parents and the children have kept them confined to their homes otherwise I'm sure we would have heard more.
When the children had sent her written apologies, they said they would like to do an in-person apology. They were advised against it at the time due to the threats. I don't think we have heard the last on this yet.
Well...again what has our world come to....THREATS?....I heard that....and yes...what the kids did was wrong, hateful and hurtful...and down right scarey...but to make threats to the family...they are no better!!! How dare they make threats because the children were wrong???
I never thought something like this would grow as big as it did, nationwide, and all the donations to the monitor, too. It just seemed to balloon in no time. Who'd ever thought this would take place?
I would like to see the kids doing more community service as their punishment especially for other kids & hopefully they would learn to be more conpassionate.
I also think the bus monitor should donate some of the funds to help stop bullying.
And one other comment--where the heck was the driver while all this was going on? Did the driver have no say so in the behavior on the bus!!!!!!!!!!!
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