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  Kids Who Taunted Elderly Bus Monitor Suspended From School for a Year
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Last EditedHomegrown Democrat  Jun 29, 2012 05:52pm
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AuthorNEETZAN ZIMMERMAN
News DateSaturday, June 30, 2012 12:55:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe four Athena Middle School students from who verbally abused elderly bus monitor Karen Klein have been suspended from school and its bus transportation system for one full year, Greece Central School District Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams announced today.

Additionally, the boys will be required to perform 50 hours of community service involving senior citizens, and complete a bullying prevention, respect and responsibility program.

Since the district is required by law to provide kids ages 5 to 16 with an education, the suspended students will spend next year at an off-campus called the Reengagement Center.
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Un:352Ralphie (12176.8838 points)
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Sat, June 30, 2012 11:52:16 AM UTC0:00
COSDem: and their parents will have to take responsibility

...for once.

 
D:478Bob ( 2253.6577 points)
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Sun, July 1, 2012 01:22:36 AM UTC0:00
This is why we need to bring back corporal punishment in the schools. A swift smack upside the head right then and there on the bus and the promise of more beatings in response to further shenanigans would have been a perfectly adequate and effective punishment, and much fairer than this nonsense IMHO. This "re-engagement center" sounds like a camp for delinquents, and the punishment of community service is usually reserved for actual lawbreakers. We should make a distinction between loudmouth brats and youthful offenders who have actually broken laws, and this is why I feel the criminalization of "bullying" is a bit of a disturbing trend. I don't know if it's fair to send the kids to crackhead school for a whole year (and potentially mar their educational record permanently) just because they called this lady a fatass. Thirty years ago the gym teacher would climb on the bus and box their ears, they'd never say another unkind word to the lady again, and it would have been over and done with without even making the local paper. Instead the little bastards are sentenced to a year in what's essentially a minimum security juvenile prison (without being convicted of any crime) and the "victim" gets to retire on $650,000 worth of donations from people on the internet with no f*cking lives for doing her job poorly. My head hurts.