At last, justice has been served in the small town of Greece, New York. The children who bullied bus monitor Karen Klein have been officially disciplined. New York’s WHAM 13 reports:
The Greece Central School District announced on Friday that four students involved in bullying a bus monitor will be suspended from school and regular bus transportation for one year.
The district is legally required to provide the students with an education.
This means the students will be transferred to the district Reengagement Center. This program keeps middle school students on track academically. [...]
Each student will be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens and will complete a formal program in bullying prevention.
So reform school, suspension and community service. Sounds like a perfect trifecta of punishment for this lot. You can refresh your memory on the original incident here.
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carolsue1ok
Jul. 2, 2012 at 9:08amthere is only one thing that they could do better, take away their stuff. Not forever but until they earn it back. What would it be like with no cell phone or a cell phone that you could only talk on and not take pictures or text with. what would it be like with no ipod or mp3 player. what would it be like with no computer but a library card. What would it be like with no game system. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you or it can be gone. And why did the school hire a nice lady like that and what was the plan when things got out of hand?
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Meyvn
Jul. 2, 2012 at 8:18amOutside of blistering their asses this is a just punishment.
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DagneyT
Jul. 1, 2012 at 7:26pmApparently, everyone at The Blaze is on vacation for Independence Day? Seems like it.
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CommieJuice
Jul. 1, 2012 at 3:54pmI don’t agree with this at all! I believe in punishment, but this is over the top, not the community service, but the year long suspension. If the school wanted to do something to them, they should have suspended them from riding the bus for a year or made them attend some psychiatric sessions during the summer. The parents should have taken their summer away and made them do yard and house work for Karen, but this is over the top. They need to learn humility, not having a year of their life taken away, when shame and losing a summer would change them in the right direction.
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iprazhm
Jul. 1, 2012 at 3:25pmAgreed, justice was served.
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JEANNIEMAC
Jul. 1, 2012 at 1:09pmOUR PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE BEEN DUMBED DOWN:
The Oklahoma Learner Outcomes dictate total subservience to the discredited “word-guessing” method of teaching reading to first graders, and do not allow the use of the proven phonics method. Instead of teaching children to read by learning the sounds and syllables of the English language so that the child can sound out words, the child is taught by endless repetition to memorize a few dozen “sight” words, to guess at new words by looking at the pictures on the page, to “predict” the text instead of reading it, and to skip over words they can’t read. The teacher is instructed not to have the child focus on reading actual words, but to let the child substitute any words that seem to fit.
The ability to read a simple story that a child has never seen before is not on the list of Oklahoma “outcomes.” Predicting is not reading, nor is asking a friend, nor is guessing at the meaning from the illustrations.
Here are some direct quotations from the official “Oklahoma State Competencies, Grade One,” pages 15-22, which confirm that first-graders will reach their “Reading Learner Outcomes” by guessing rather than by reading: “The student attend[s] to the meaning of what is read rather than focusing on figuring out words. . . . Uses context, pictures, syntax, and structural analysis clues to predict meanings of unknown words. Develops a sight vocabulary of high frequency words. . . . Predict[s] unknown words. . . . Uses
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mey789
Jun. 30, 2012 at 9:36pmmy roomate’s aunt makes $83/hr on the laptop. She has been without work for 8 months but last month her pay was $8682 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more on this site…NuttyRich.com
B4REALITY
Jun. 30, 2012 at 9:36pmGOOD – we have to hold people accountable (yes, even children) for their behavior.
I AM NOT LIVING IN SOME PATHOLOGICAL – FREAKIN’ ABUSIVE SOCIETY – where citizens are to be intimidated because the loons have the keys to doors!!!
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cranberry
Jun. 30, 2012 at 8:52pmWonderful! Finally, something that should be done, was done! Hoorray!
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namron52
Jun. 30, 2012 at 8:34pmIt is nice to see true justice done every once in a while. Now we will see if it makes a difference in the long term. My hat is off to the Greece Central School District for it’s actions, whether spurred on by national exposure or not. Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen, for caring about the behavior of our children, and having the courage to correct bad behavior.
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paulwbrown
Jun. 30, 2012 at 8:00pmI was glad to read of the common sense disposition. I was also glad to read that they will be placed in a re-education center (as something was obviously missing from their previous education) rather than have the school district go to the expense of sending tutors to the miscreants’ houses as is sometimes done.
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scarletworm
Jun. 30, 2012 at 7:31pmLove it! Proud of whoever made that decision.
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