Those nasty bullies who tormented an innocent 68-year-old school bus monitor with comments about her weight, sexual acts and family members killing themselves, finally got their due. A one-year suspension from school, time in some type of rehab facility and community service with the elderly.
A one-year suspension is huge. It seems just and appropriate for a bullying offense. But why does it still not feel like it's enough to pay for what they said and how they actually did it? Maybe because it's not. Once you say such terrible, mean, and hurtful things as they did, you can never take them back or make good on them, no matter how harsh the punishment.
Those taunts will live on the Internet and in the heart of poor Karen Klein forever, no matter how many vacations she gets to take or how many days those boys miss school.
The four middle-schoolers apparently waived their right to a hearing. After a week of talking about the incident, which went viral around the world, the school district near Rochester, New York, issued a statement last night on how to deal with the deviants.
In addition to the suspension and community service work, the boys have to go through a bullying prevention program. Usually, being suspended (or expelled) from school does not mean they miss a grade, it just means they attend an alternative type school where they are still required to complete classwork requirements to be able to keep on track with their current grade. But in many districts, it's not nearly the equivalent of instruction they get while attending regular school, and they miss out on all the social and extra-curricular activities as well. So yeah, it's a real blow to a kid.
But whether the boys will "learn their lesson" from this punishment is unclear. It still doesn't seem to bridge to the larger crime of human decency and respect. Nothing really does. There just is no appropriate punishment for what those boys did to Mrs. Klein ("official" punishment, that is).
Do you think the boys got the punishment they deserved?
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wash their mouths out with soap!
Humans failing at Sanity.
Teaching with punishment. How bright are all of you? Dogs learn that way.
Woof woof.
What? Slaves can't speak canine? OMG I didn't hurt your imagined insane emotional _feelings_, did I? You best censor me. I'm too _powerful_ for my own good.
Imbeciles. Human beings are taught things another way. Violence is not a sane way to 'persuade'. You're all disgusting vassals. The horrors you inflict onto children. You won't pay for your crimes one day. Justice is an invention of religion.
Eye for an eye. Tooth for a tooth. And imbeciles too stupid to be allowed to have children cannot add 2 + 2 together and come up with FOUR instances of insanity. Well done. Enjoy your slavery.
Don't forget to breed the next generation of emotionally abused and ludicrously insane vassal slaves & soldiers and breeders of both. Poor widdle babies. Awwh. Those mean words?
They sting like sticks and stones, don't they?
When you're INSANE.
My parents would have beat me senseless. I'd never have tolerated it from my kids either. You have to wonder what is wrong with the parents that these kids actually thought this was acceptable. I knew better when I was 5 years old!
Give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile. I'm afraid it's too late to turn trash into treasure.
i think they should right an apology to the women and the kids should gotten jail time even the parents for raising ignorant kids
I don't understand "it's not enough..." They got a YEAR from school they will never get back. That will be with them for the rest of their lives and could affect them getting into college, if they are heading that way. I think it's a huge punishment and not only punished them, but their families, who will have to reorganize the next year of their lives to accommodate the punishment. Good for the school, I just hope they would have done it without all the publicity??? I agree with some of the other comments that this "stupid, childish" lack of judgement will lead these kids to become real criminals or dreads on society. Maybe instead of year off of school, a YEAR or MORE of working in a retirement community everyday after school.
Unfortunatey, the "bridge to the larger crime of human decency and respect" was one that their parents should have started building long long ago. Hopefully, these individuals will learn from all of this and do better by their own children someday.
My question is what the heck are the parents doing about the little brats? I would not tolerate my child ever talking to another person like that.