An online feel-good fundraising effort for a bullied bus monitor has surpassed half a million dollars — and is growing.
More than $530,362 has been donated
to Karen Klein, a 68-year-old grandmother of eight who appears on a
10-minute video earlier this week being berated and bullied by four
seventh-graders on a bus operated by the Greece Central School District,
near Rochester, N.Y. Klein has also been offered a trip to Disney Land
with nine guests by Southwest Airlines, FoxNews.com has confirmed.
"We
are so happy the nation has rallied around Karen, but also deeply
saddened that it happened because of such a horrifying video," Southwest
spokesman Brooks Thomas wrote FoxNews.com in an e-mail. "We didn't do
it for the coverage ... It was just the right thing to do."
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Editors Note: If you click on the "donated" link above it will take you to the page where you can donate and also see how much has already been donated. At the current time it is almost at $600G
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