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Beck Slams Horrific Video of Children Abusing Bus Driver: ‘The Kids in This Video Are Dead Inside’

Glenn Beck Responds to Abuse Story About Bus Monitor Karen KleinGlenn Beck opened his radio show this morning by commenting on one of the week’s most disturbing stories — the vicious attack that middle schoolers waged on Karen Huff Klein, a 68-year-old bus monitor (and grandmother of eight) in Greece, New York.

Beck joined millions of Americans in voicing his outrage after learning about the startling footage that captured the abuse. The video, he told listeners, showcases the negative changes that have occurred in American culture.

“We have lost our way as a society,” Beck said. “I saw a video yesterday that was so disturbing that I haven’t been able to even watch the whole thing.”

(Related: ‘Shut the F**k Up’: Disturbing Viral Video Shows Middle Schoolers Abusing & Threatening Bus Monitor)

Joining the chorus of voices calling for a deeper look at the elements at play, Beck told Americans that we need to explore “what’s happening with our kids.” He also discussed the differences that exist between American society in the 1950s and today, claiming that such a spectacle wouldn’t have happened decades ago.

Glenn Beck Responds to Abuse Story About Bus Monitor Karen Klein

“Even [if the students acted that way], the driver would have slammed on the brakes at some point, gotten out of his seat, and administered some old-fashioned ass-whopping with these 12-year-old kids,” Beck said of the 1950s. “If not the driver, I do believe there would have been at least a student or two among the 30+ on board who had the guts and decency to stop or at least try to stop it.”

He went on to discuss some of the potential causes that have led American youths to such a point, concluding that, “The kids in this video are dead inside.”

Watch Beck discuss the disturbing abuse Klein received, below:

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  • SuaSponte
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:35pm

    Every one of these “kids” needs to have their azzes tanned. As in unable to sit down,for a week or so. And to those that think its child abuse, let these little cretins be your answer. Im a firm believer in act right, or there are painful consequences. I told my son when he was thirteen, and starting to become unruly, you will respect me, and my authority over you, either because you admire me, or you fear me. I dont care which. He tried to test his boundaries, and i introduced him to shoe leather on his
    buttocks. Needless to say, he never acted up again, and remembers his lesson to this day. Parents, teach your kids how to act, or someone else will.trayvon was shot and killed for acting stupid, and menacing someone he shouldnt have.

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    • Wildape
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:44pm

      Suasponte steps up, shoots, and scores with nothing but net. I give Suasponte three bananas, two circles and a snap.

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    • wkwe
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:17pm

      They are breeding the generation that will euthanize the elderly under ObamaCare‘s ’Death Panels’. These kids would kill you in a heartbeat…especially for a paycheck and government bennies.

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    • stopthelibagenda
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:48pm

      I totally agree with you. When I was younger I got the belt if I got out of line. Back then I didnt know any better and would obviously hate my parents for doing that but I’m 23 years old now and I believe that I turned out well. If I were to do this my parents would kill me. I was taught never to raise my voice to any adult including elders. So in this case, to me, these kids were never spanked, because its considered “child abuse” so they were probably put in time out which definately does nothing in my opinion

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    • Bikkiboo
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:27pm

      I retired from teaching middle school special education. These are the kind of kids I tried to teach. Even regular classes were having these kinds of kids in class. It only takes one kid like this to ruin your whole class and keep others from learning. It is why public schools are not doing well. It is why parents have already taken kids to private schools and home schools. With vouchers, the rest of the caring parents are pulling their kids out of public schools too. What are the public schools left with? No wonder they are getting so bad!
      I saw this kind of child begin in a Head Start center where the mom of a 3-year old said right in front of him that “I can’t do a thing with him!” If you don‘t teach them in the Terrible Two’s, you get Terrible Two behavior for the rest of their lives. Raising kids is HARD work and 24/7/365. if you don’t want that work, don’t have the kid. 15-year olds want welfare money, so they have kids and don’t raise them. These kids end up like the bus kids. Responsible parents are not having too many kids; welfare parents are. The “bus” kids are outnumbering the rest of us. This is our future!

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  • Rabble In Arms
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:33pm

    The wheels on this bus need to back up to the nearest cliff and throw that middle school trash out!

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  • shogun459
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:25pm

    How can you expect ANYONE to try and stop this when last month the ONE PERSON that tried to stop Bullies on a Bus was kicked off the bus by the school for bullying the bullies.

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    • Ampleforth
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:38pm

      Agreed! I’ve always stated that anti-bullying measures — along with zero tolerance policies — play into the hands of the bullies. Kids who follow the rules will follow them. The ones who don’t will not care about the rules and break them anyway. Anti-bullying and ztp’s will result in good kids being dragged down by the bad.

      In my day — the 1970s — a middle school bully would’ve had his way for a few days or maybe a week or two. Finally, the good kids — or just a single good kid — would’ve knocked the living feces out of him, and the problem would’ve been solved.

      A kid bullied me on the bus when I was in elementary school. One day I had enough and rode the bus to his stop, where I proceeded to beat the living daylights out of the punk. I got hurt, too. Later in life, he and I became friends and laughed about our bus-stop fight.

      I had a cousin who stood up to an entire football team for taunting a black student (this was in the rural South, too). He kind of came up short on his defense of the kid, but he opened the eyes of school administrators to the behavior of the team, too. My cousin is an adult, now, and still lives by the principals he lived by in school. He’s very successful. Out of all his successes, I tell people about him taking on a county football team to defend a black kid before I tell them anything else.

      I can only watch a few moments of the video. That poor woman. I’ve thought about her all day. In some ways, I wish I never watched it.

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  • gamoo
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:25pm

    This kids should be prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law……….oh wait…..there aren’t any laws left to prosecute. As an EA in a jr. high school for 17 years, I’m here to tell you behavior such as this is not rare. ( How sad I am to have to say that.) Give us back some authority to discipline these kids. Throw their butts in detention and then throw their parents in jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor!!

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  • silenthell
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:17pm

    If I saw or knew my child was involved in something like this, an ass kicking is assured!

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  • Joe MMMMMM
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:56pm

    One child’s father is an officer at the Greece Police Department.
    What a great dad he is. Happy Fathers Day to him, thats for sure!

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    • Kilmerfan
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:50pm

      OMG I was thinking that this morning, all the cop kids in my school when I was a kid were brats

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  • newview
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:36pm

    Most of these kids will not be incarcerated. You will see them working at your local nursing home or assisted care home as aides. You may want to start speaking up now ‘cuz it won’t be any easier when you are 90. We all have to take the power back. Are you getting a bad feeling yet?

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    • Magyar
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:33pm

      WRONG—-

      Most of them WILL BE incarcerated in some maximun security facility for 10 to 20 to life!

      BET ON IT!

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    • flatbroke
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:55pm

      @NEWVIEW, I have worked at nursing homes, and if i saw one of them talking to a resident like that, rest assured, I would confront them, and call the hotline to make sure they were put on the EDL list. People who work in nursing homes are screened and screened, and we are not stupied either, and you have to have compassion for residents of nursing homes to work their, otherwise you will not be there very long, after all, it may be you in that nursing home someday. Compassion and empathy are mandatory to work in a nursing home.

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    • eternal_vigilance
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:09pm

      Funny you should mention that. I was thinking during the drive home how this should be a perfect learning experience for them to have to work in one with close supervision of course. They don‘t need any lectures from someone they don’t respect. They need to talk to their maker and learn a little humility and something about their mortality.

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  • Chromo200
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:32pm

    This is the outcome of … “don’t punish the kids it will hurt their self esteem.” The kids know that adults are not allowed to do anything to them and that is why they behave like animals. These kids when they kill their parents or someone, we wring our hands and say how did they get this way. We cudle these kids to no end. When there is a tragedy somewhere we send masses of counselors to the schools to help the kids get over their grief, hog wash. When my friends were shot and some died, when relatives and friends died in accidents there were no councelors around to hold my hand and ask me about my feelings. I grew up to be a citizen without any criminal activitiy, I served honorably in the military, I held good and well paying jobs and I raised a family where my kids were taught to respect adults and the law. I am like millions in this world, BUT

    We are on our way to live the movie “Lord of the Flies” and have the attitude that “you owe me, I did not ask to be born”.

    In 20 – 30 years we will be slaves to the Chinese who believe in hard work and presently respect their parents and elders.

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  • iblvingd
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:27pm

    The sad thing is that the parents of these children will never see a word we all throw out here. Because they don’t care them selves. They aren’t interested in what is going on in the country and what could affect their futures, they only care about surviving from day to day.

    It is going to take US to fight for the life of our country and hopefully give these people the opportunity to see a different and better way to live and teach them how to live it.

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  • Tom K
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:26pm

    This is the DIRECT RESULT of parents AND schools not disciplining their children; the removal of prayer in the school and the lack thereof at home; the lack of respect for authority at home and in school: the bombardment of violence upon children from the movies, video games, bad neighborhoods and abusive parents / reletives; the absence of respect for the unborn and/or these childrens’ peers and/or the elderly; the lack of a challenge in schools that are purposely dumbing down our best and brightest to cow-tow to the children of lessor intelligence; the fact of “social promotions” to move an unruley child out of Grade A and up to Grade B even though they are NOT ready to move up; the loss of local control of public schools given over to an inept Federal Education Department, etc., etc. We MUST take out children, school and government back, AMERICA ! At least 49 years of Big Government has resulted in exactly what you saw on these videos – children that ARE dead inside. May God please forgive America. Let US Pray.

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  • pam4freedom
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:21pm

    There should be a mandatory assembly for parents/kids and the grandparents should be invited especially for every kid that rides that bus and this video should be shown. When children are taught not to listen to Mom/Dad/Grandparents this is the result. I do believe some schools/teachers are doing this by undermining what parents are trying to teach their children. We are hearing the lack of respect for adults/for elderly/ for anyone who is heavy. Shame! Shame! Shame!

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  • stogieguy7
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:20pm

    Two things on this:

    1) I saw this sort of thing happen to kids on the school bus back in the 1970s, so its not really new. The severity has increased, however; and,

    2) What exactly does a “bus monitor” do? Isn’t she supposed to maintain order on the bus? Why is she there and taking that abuse?

    Yes, it’s horrible and the little bastards should be suspended from school indefinitely and their parents should be forced to meet with the administration to explain why their little creep should be allowed back in.

    That said, this problem has been brewing for a long time and we haven’t done anything about it as a society. We are headed to a scary place. And kids in most other countries are not as bad as this. Not yet, at least.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:37pm

      2) What exactly does a “bus monitor” do? Isn’t she supposed to maintain order on the bus? Why is she there and taking that abuse?
      _________________________________________________________________________

      Did anyone ever think these kids are learning media propaganda? Maybe they were trying to engage her to act so they can post a Youtube video titled: “look at this evil bus monitor beat the cr@p out of these innocent kids”!

      Also, if she does nothing she is chastised and if she reacts she is crucified. It’s a NO win for her. This is the BS we put up with today.
      BTW, your analogy of the 1970′s is wrong. There was some teasing but we were put in our place by the bus driver who told the principle who told our parents. When that happened, our social life was over… not happening today.

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    • kadster01
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:46pm

      I‘m in my 40’s and the worst thing I witnessed in regard to disrespect toward elders in school was when a kid who sat behind me called our teacher “fat butt” behind her back. Now, I loved her and thought she was one of the best teachers ever so I told on him. His mom was also a teacher and she wore his little punk a$$ out. That’s what is supposed to happen when punks disrespect adults. These punks don’t even respect themselves and no one is teaching them otherwise. Do we just allow this kinda behavior because of that, or do we address it and correct it before it’s too late. To me, the answer is obviously the latter.

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    • Ampleforth
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:44pm

      I’m a child of the 1970s. My hindquarters would’ve been on fire for this type of behavior, and I would’ve had to make a public apology to the woman. I can see my Dad standing over me as I cut that woman’s lawn with a pair of dull scissors on a hot summer day after my apology. He’d say, “Every blade, son, every single blade of grass!”

      Heck, I got whipped for making fun of a kid, who lived down the highway, when he rode a mule up to our house. Forsythia makes wicked switches. I think the kid’s family was poor, but, heck, we were, too.

      I’m getting ready to make my kids watch this when I can muster the fortitude to watch all of it.

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    • Bikkiboo
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:44pm

      A bus monitor is on the bus to help keep order because the bus driver has to drive. it used to be that the kids could be trusted to behave on the bus, so the driver rarely had to do anything. If a kid acted up, his bus privileges were suspended. Then, when kids couldn’t be trusted, they went to cameras, but the do-gooders said that was entrapment or something, and the kid couldn’t be kicked off the bus. So…they got bus “monitors” who could watch the kids and let the driver drive. Now, the kids don’t obey the monitors either. Maybe we should go back to neighborhood schools, so the kids could walk to school. They’d get exercise (reduce obesity), fewer buses would be on the road (less pollution), their parents could participate in the school….oh, but then the poor innocents would be out in danger on the streets???

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  • opieandannie
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:13pm

    I’m 25 years old, and thankful that I was raised the way I was. This is disgusting to witness. Had I done something like this when I was a kid, I wouldn’t of made it to my next birthday, I watched a follow-up of this story on ABC news, they interviewed one of the boys fathers. Although he was apologetic, he didn’t seem all that fazed by his sons actions. On top of that ABC made no mention of the girl involved. Apparently they didn’t listen to the entire recording, or they took a tip from NBC, and chose to ignore the whole scope of the incident. Have we become a society where we are to afriad to discipline our children? This is pathetic, and sickening to watch. We are witnessing the rapid decline of a once near morally sound society. You can thank Progressives, and liberals alike for this sort of behavior becoming the new norm. Somebody needs to slap these kids. Yes … I said slap… I guess im just insinuating that we should all “abuse” our children. May GOD help these kids, and our society as a whole.

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  • PatGreene
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:13pm

    Seriously???? Glenn Beck denouncing rude profanity??? Isn’t that something like the pot calling the kettle black? Since when has Glenn Beck ever done anything, ANYTHING for humanity?

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    • scuba13
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:34pm

      You just showed us what an idiot sounds like. Thanks Pat.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:49pm

      Sometimes, Pat, the best people to give advice on the direction someone is going are the people who have been on that road and found it to be the wrong way and treacherous. I hope one day you learn what repentance means.

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    • no_more_harkin
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:35pm

      Seriously Pat? Guess you have not a sinlge clue about Beck and his charity work. Do some research before you spout off, jack a$$.
      I don’t always agree with Beck, and some of his mocking gets under my skin, but deep down I feel he cares for the people of this country more than all liberals combined.

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  • jamestoms
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:02pm

    Dirthy filthy kids and parents, kids reflect what the parents are, no doubt dems being shown here!

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  • Nick84
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:59pm

    What a hypocrite. Glenn called a woman to mock her miscarriage when he was a small time dj.

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:16pm

      And you yourself are sinless, I am certain.

      If no one is permitted to comment until they are perfect, that would include your comment as well.

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    • Nick84
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:56pm

      I never claimed to be perfect. However, I’m not on tv preaching doom and gloom about how we have “lost our way as a society” while being guilty of something just as bad as what I’m commenting on. It also shows that people being extremely rude is nothing new, as he should know.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:31pm

      Everyone makes mistakes and everyone learns. Glenn admits he was a cretin (my word, not his) in his younger days. He has learned and changed and is now trying to make the world a better place. That, sir, is commendable and should not be downplayed. While I disagree with most as to what the punishment of these children should be, I certainly stand with Glenn’s work, his generosity and his seeming willingness to help fix our broken system as you, too, should.

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:59pm

    It‘s the driver’s job to drive. It‘s the monitor’s job to monitor, that is, to maintain order and correct bad behavior. There’s no excusing these kids, but this woman was evidently not very good at her job!

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  • okieqt
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:58pm

    Society has lost its moral compass. Suddenly it becomes “not a big deal” to drink, do drugs, use profane language, cheat if it benefits you, break the law, etc. Parents don’t seem to care (participating in many cases), and the entertainment industry glamorizes it. Foul language is so commonly heard in general society (music, TV, schools, etc) that when I have asked kids standing in line at the mall not to use such profanity around my children, they actually stare at me, not even understanding what my problem is. I homeschool my kiddos & thankfully they understand that many in society think it is a way of life to be immoral, crass & crude – but we will not participate!

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  • glennrocks
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:51pm

    This made me so mad!!! Why does she just sit there ? I hate parents that think little Petey is innocent.
    Its all on camera.
    !st – kick the little twerps off the bus, call mom to come get them.
    2nd- Kick them out of school.
    Stop allowing this stuff. Thank goodness i home school. This lady is not doing her job. She is allowingthe bullies to win. Her job is to protect the kids. I‘m sure schools can’t discipline kids anymore.

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    • okieqt
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:03pm

      So true! Are there no consequences to their actions?! If they bully an adult, imagine how they treat each other. I homeschool too – our school includes discipline!

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:50pm

    When you don’t allow the parents to discipline their own children, instead, allowing and aiding children by letting them sit in “Time Out” or call the cops to protect them from their parents, this is bound to happen at some point. Now admittedly, children have always been mischievous on the bus at times. But nothing I’ve ever remember to this extent. this is more than over the top, those kids on that bus should be lined up on the courthouse steps and beat with a paddle, Texas style.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:50pm

    I went to grade school in the 1950′s. Mr. Graham, the bus driver, scared the crap out of us if we made too much noise or stood up. He had the authority to bar you from riding the bus. In the middle 60′s, I got a part time job driving bus while I was in college. Mr. Graham turned out to be a nice guy. He told be that twice a day, he had 36 lives in his hands and he was bound to keep them safe. A good guy.

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    • netmail
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:08pm

      Me too (grew up in the 50′s). We were always aware of consequences in our day. Today’s youth are driven and directed by the result of little or no consequences whatsoever. A good many of them will NOT grow up to be responsible adults. I think that’s a fact that may ultimately crush our society and usher in unthinkable chaos sooner than we think.

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    • opieandannie
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:21pm

      My bus driver ( im 25 ) was a ww2 veteran who spent 5 days in a pit on Omaha beach after he was shot. He went on to become a police officer, than a bus driver. He was a good friend of my Grandfathers, they worked in the P.D together. When I said the F word on the bus one day he stopped , grabbed me out of my seat, opened the doors and kicked me off. He told me if I wanted to use that language , I could take the ” shoe leather express.” I walked the mile to school, got in trouble for being late, got out of school, went home and was grounded for a week. Needless to say I mind my tongue to this day!

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    • Altair
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:47pm

      I went to grade school in the ’50s, too. It was “yessir” and “No ma’am,” or somebody’s chain got jerked. Nobody’s chain got jerked, however, actually, because kids would have been humiliated to be known as trash.

      Of course, in the ’50s, public school was a monocultural affair.

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  • Karron
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:45pm

    These horrid kids should be kicked off the bus and out of school for elder abuse and hate speech. WHAT a bunch of creeps. l bet most of the parents do the helicopter thing and say their kids weren’t being bad, just stupid. Get a clue, they were being BAD.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:08pm

      No, I‘m betting they’re products of a single mom family. I can picture a fat tattooed 28 year old with 3 kids by 3 different “baby daddies”, and we’re paying for the kid. Mom actually thinks this is funny and it’s the kind of behavior the mom has displayed since the kid can remember.

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  • HowardSternIsABigot
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:37pm

    So sad what happened to a once great country, scared to speak back to the slavers.

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    • ILUVAMERICA
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:42pm

      Anyone with a Moral Conscience will be REPULSED at the actions of these hoodlums!
      Take A Look At our Future!!!! These hoodlums will grow up physically but Never mentally, and mentally they are Very Very Very Sick!
      And what makes me even sicker is their parents will probably defend their Disgusting behavior or do Nothing at all!

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    • ILUVAMERICA
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Anyone with a Moral Conscience will be REPULSED at the actions of these hoodlums!
      Take A Look At our Future!!!! These hoodlums will grow up physically but Never mentally, and mentally they are Very Very Very Sick!
      And what makes me sick is their parents will probably defend their Disgusting behavior or do Nothing at all!

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  • tckid17
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:34pm

    Here’s to hoping those kids have to work as Bussboys and Bussgirls at the Diner for minimum wage.

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  • KASHA
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:32pm

    Yep, I grew up in the 50′s and I KNOW that this would never have happened at that time. These kids are headed for incarceration before too many years go by with the way the act and their absolute lack of humanity. I’d love to see the parents and hear what they have to say…………………..on second thought, maybe not. It would probably make me even more disgusted.

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    • AnAmericanToo
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:57pm

      Yes — I too have wondered about the PARENTS and their views about their evil offspring. And, I have decided that the apple probably doesn’t fall far from the tree.

      PAST TIME FOR RESTORE LOVE……

      Makes me wonder too what are the schools teaching that these “things” are allowed to fester and grow within the school system? The schools lecture on anti-bullying, on sex education, on ‘tolerance’ where American students are denied the right to display the US flag, etc. etc. I would think that at the beginning of the school year that those kids riding school buses need to sign a contract that they WILL behave themselves as civil human beings — no spit balls, no screaming, no insults, no beating upon others, no taking things of other bus riders, etc. If the rider violates the contract — the student would be BANNED for riding for the remainder of the academic year. PERIOD. The contract would have to be signed by the parents as well.

      RESTORE LOVE …badly needed for society….RESTORE LOVE (did I mention that????)

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