Bullied NY bus monitor creates foundation to teach kindness
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}It's been a year since Karen Klein became known as the bullied bus monitor at the center of a 10-minute cellphone video that unleashed a flood of donations.
At her upstate New York home in suburban Rochester, she reflected on the year since the taunts and threats she endured from four seventh-grade boys moved thousands of strangers to give her money for a vacation. More than $700,000 poured in.
Now retired, Klein says she used $100,000 to seed the Karen Klein Anti-Bullying Foundation to promote kindness. Some proceeds have helped family and friends, and she hopes to use some to fix up the house where she's lived for 46 years.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Daughter Amanda Klein-Romig says such fame would change a lot of people, but her mother has remained the same.