When a video of a bullied bus monitor went viral earlier this year, Max Sidorov decided to start a charity campaign to send the woman on a nice vacation. Well, Karen Klein can spend the rest of her life on vacation now that she’s received a $703,833 check.
The Edmonton Journal reports that Sidorov started a campaign on Indiegogo with the initial goal of raising $5000 for the bullied bus monitor. A spokesman for the site said that Sidorov surpassed his goal within hours, and, after two days, he had raised $500,000. Sidorov said that the fund received donations from more than 30,000 people from 84 different counties.
CBS reports that Klein has retired from her $15,506 salary job at Athena Middle School and plans on starting a bullying foundation.
Klein said:
“It’s hard to believe that people donated like that. I paid my car, I paid my house off.”
Radar Online reports that Klein is planning on using $100,000 to start an anti-bullying foundation. She will also donate some money to special needs charities. Oh, and she’s also going to go on a real long vacation.
Here’s a video of the bullied bus monitor receiving her $700,000 check.
The fundraising effort was started after a cellphone video of Karen Klein getting harassed on a school bus went viral. On the video, a group of young boys are heard calling Klein names and saying terrible things like her family had committed suicide because they didn’t want to talk to her.
Are you happy for Karen Klein? Are you glad that she’s using the money to fight bullying?
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I'm very happy for her and I'm happy that she is putting the money toward a great cause. I think those boys should have had more punishment instead of a slap on the hand and 15 mintues in time out.
a lot of kids suck! used to be the community could whoop their butts for that type of behavior. maybe we just need to beat the parents butts instead…trickle down theory.
Considering the AMOUNT of money donated, I would like to see more of it spent on helping solve this problem, than helping her solve her financial problems, which we all seem to have these days. But, most definitely, she deserves to use a big chunk for a fantasy vacation!
She better figure out her taxes before she spends it all…
I am definately happy for her and proud of what max did and also what he is planning to do for bullied children!
I am so happy for her! I cant believe what was said by those boys and how she remained calm through it all. I hope that her anti-bullying program goes far and really helps a lot of kids and adults out there who are victims of bullying.
That's exactly what I said to Cliff. Same with Aurora shooting. "Victims " want the "cash". There are "victims" of wrong-doing by the thousands daily. Just because it happens to a group of people at one time or the media picks up on it doesn't make them more of a "victim" than the lone person who met a similar fate. It's not right to treat one with an "oh well" attitude and turn around a lavish money to others. The cash may change the life of one bus driver, but doesn't address the real problem.