NEW YORK (AP) — Four seventh-grade boys from upstate New York who were caught on video mercilessly taunting a 68-year-old bus monitor have received their punishment.
The school system in the Rochester suburb of Greece says it will suspend the middle school students from school and from using regular bus transportation for a year.
The students will be transferred to a special alternative education program. The district is legally required to give the students an education.
Each student will also be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens.
The video uploaded to YouTube by a fellow student drew millions of viewers. A fund drive that began with a goal of $5,000 to help Klein take a nice vacation has raised more than $667,304 as of Friday.
WSYR-TV in Syracuse first reported the school district’s decision.
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As well they should be!!!!!!
GOOD!!! They should be….
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! And I hope there is a lot more punishment coming! I hope she presses charges too!!!
serves em right….but will they learn their lesson?
Wow… I’m surprised the school actually did something other than a slap on the hand… Kudos to them. I hope this alternative school teaches them how very wrong what they did was. I’m glad to see there bus privileges revoked! Let them walk or bike it to school! Hope they truly learn how awful they acted and treated another human being!
I think the bus driver should be punished as well-he/she never did anything…
proves the old saying, if you don’t have anything good to say KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT !!
THEY ARE NOT SORRY,THEY ARE SORRY THEY GOT CAUGHT!!! ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF THEY LEARNED THERE LESSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah What About The Bus Driver???? he or she didn’t do a damn thing!!!!!!
I think they should have gotten more community service time!
Some kids are such brats they consider it a joke to be suspended.
Good! Punks!
Simply ridiculous! These kids got it way worse than the South Hadley girls.