The Takeaway: Donations Pour In For Bus Monitor Bullied By Middle-Schoolers

The video is disturbing. Shot on a cell phone, the 10-minute clip shows a team of 12- and 13-year-old boys harassing their 68-year-old school bus monitor, Karen Klein, with insults, profanity and threats. But since the kids from Greece, New York uploaded the bullying video to YouTube, Klein has received an international outpouring of sympathy-- and cash.

Earlier this week, the fundraising website indiegogo.com began accepting donations for Klein, aiming to raise $5,000 to send her on a vacation. It's now collected more than $450,000.

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Klein appeared on the Anderson Cooper show Thursday, where Cooper read her apology statements from two of the boys.

But "even if he wasn't picking on me, it was something else," Klein told Cooper. "So I just don't think I would believe anything Josh had to say."

Klein, a grandmother of eight, said she doesn't want to press charges, but she hopes the parents of the bullies watch the video and talk to their children about being "a little more respectful."

Dozens of people, including one by a 15-year-old student in New York, have posted videos on YouTube in support of respect for Klein and and older people.

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