Kids call bus monitor "fat" until she cries and they still don't stop.

[Gabby]

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[-Ro-]

Wow I saw a bit of the video on tv yesterday and I just couldnt believe it...how can they be so cruel?
I wont even try watching the youtube videos because I got goosebumps just reading that transcript :/

Poor Karen, noone deserves something like that.

[cpvr]

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Go Karen!!

Glenn Back also wrote about this:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/06/21/...-on-schoolbus/

Here's some things he had to say:

“I can’t even listen to it. I can’t even listen to it. They’re just, all they’re saying to her is you’re so fat, you’re so ugly, they’re poking her. This is a woman, what, 60 years old?” Glenn when he heard just a portion of the audio.

“While things were obviously far from perfect in the 1950s, we have come so far on many fronts, some of them really good, some of them not so positive. We have lost our way as a society,” Glenn explained.

“Let’s start here. A busload of middle schoolers, these are 12‑ and 13‑year‑old kids. There’s no way that they would have been brazen enough, nasty enough, callous enough to continue the onslaught like this against an elderly woman for ten full minutes in the 1950s. Oh, I know there were problems in the 1950s, but look how we have fixed most of those problems and at the same time gone in the opposite direction. Secondly, even if they would have been, the driver would have slammed on the brakes at some point, gotten out of his seat and administered some old‑fashioned ass‑whoopin’ with these 12‑year‑old kids. If not the driver, I do believe there would have been at least a student or two among the 30‑plus on board who had the guts and the decency to stop or at least try to stop it,” he continued.

“The kids in this video are dead inside. There are a ton of factors that have contributed to this slide. Maybe TV, movies, music, video games that desensitize, lack of the nuclear family unit, both parents now outside the home, no one raising the kids except the government, the schools not being able to have any kind of control, the “not my kid” mentally, the fact that every kid now has an attorney. I don’t know what’s gone into this toxic mix.”

“But let me ask you this: We’re coming up on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling eliminating school prayer. Have things gotten better or worse? Has our scholastic standing worldwide improved or degraded? Are our kids better behaved? Are they happier, or are they more tragic, more prone to suicide, and more, almost completely out of control? Are schools safer or much, much more dangerous than they were? These kids don’t even see another human being,” he said.

Glenn said that these kids have gotten to the point where they don’t even see other people as people. They can’t look beyond themselves, and compared that mindset to Americans who turned a blind eye when the Japanese were sent to camps during World War 2 or the Germans sent the Jews to concentration camps. This, Glenn said, is how those kinds of atrocities start to happen – when people stop having empathy and kindness and instead are filled with selfishness and hatred.

“How much happens in our kids’ lives that is a completely different culture? Our kids are schizophrenic. Our kids live in one culture and then they come home and they live in another culture. And you endorse their culture at school every time you turn on the TV. Because you’re watching it and you think, ‘This is crazy. Well, my kids know better.’ No, they don’t. That’s the culture they’re immersed in all day long. You’re endorsing that culture.”

“So what do we do? How do we prepare our kids that when they see something like this happening, they make sure they have the integrity, the humanity to do their best to stop it? Love them, be with them, meet with them weekly, one on one. Pray with them. They can’t do that at school. Make sure prayer is a part of their lives at home. Read the scriptures together. Feed their spirits. It’s as important, if not more important, than feeding their body. Feed their spirit and their body. Play with them. Do service for others with them. Regulate their gaming time.”

“We have to accept the responsibility for our own children. We have to correct the misconceptions that they have,” he said.

Regardless of where these kids learned this behavior, parents have to take responsibility and teach them that there are consequences to their actions. Parents have to make sure their kids are loved and that they have a strong sense of values.

“Maybe then we can return to the decency of Mayberry without the ugliness of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’.”

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Where was the bus driver during all this? Havent heard anything about that person...

[cpvr]

Where was the bus driver during all this? Havent heard anything about that person...

I was wondering the same thing. My mom used to be a bus driver and she said she would have stopped the bus if this happened on one of her routes. You can easily get on the "system"walkie-talkie that goes straight to the bus station and get people to the bus - such as cops.

[Gabby]

Punishments for the children have been posted.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...nsions?lite%2F

Worth the read, believe me.

[cpvr]

Punishments for the children have been posted.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...nsions?lite%2F

Worth the read, believe me.

Those are good punishments for those kids.

WHEC reported that during the one-year suspension, each student will attend an alternative program at the district’s reengagement center. They will also be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens and will also have to complete a formal program in bullying prevention, respect and responsibility.

[Gabby]

Those are good punishments for those kids.

Thank you, I'm rushing and there is too many great quotes there for me to choose which to excerpt. xD