This is actually a good thing. Most adults have a major disconnect when they see children bullying other children because, you know, bullying "builds character" and it's "all part of growing up" etc.

When they see what the vicious little brutes would do to them, given the opportunity, maybe they'll start to become concerned.

Yeah man, who cares when bad things happen to OLD people, right? They're incapable of being hurt anyway, since they're so OLD.

I bet you're all kinds of hip, QuakeSoldier. Just straight up strolling into the Old People Meeting with a boom box, wearing your sunglasses and leather jacket, and playing all the hottest Vanilla Ice tapes, just to BLOW THEIR DUSTY OLD GRANDPA MINDS.

I'm just going to pretend that Quake only made his first paragraph.

I was relentlessly bullied in grade eight, and I remember the worst part being the hopelessness of it, because it literally happened right in front of the teachers and they ignored it.

As an adult, the idea that being bullied makes you a better person just makes me irate. Of all the people I saw being bullied through grade school, none of them turned into any sort of ubermensch. In my personal experience, I just learned to avoid social settings and started paying the bullying forward. I remember one time when I was bullying someone else, I even got a teacher to laugh at the victim. So my lasting legacy from being the target of bullying is memories of things I am totally ashamed.

of.

Holy shit, you are a dork.

Or not getting home at all.

Exactly, this shit wouldnt fly when I was in Elementary.
They had contingency plans for this kind of stuff when I was growing up.

She's actually probably pretty powerless, which is why the kids attacked her.

The driver is probably under orders not to stop unless it's a matter of life and limb or the kids become unruly enough to interfere with the safe operation of the vehicle. Remember, a lot of buses serve multiple. Running late on one route means all subsequent routes run late. You can imagine the outcry if so many kids got home twenty minutes late, especially for something like this that most parents would consider a "petty" reason to stop the bus.

She certainly couldn't lay hands on the kids. Teachers and other school staff have been fired for things as minor as grabbing kids' arms to haul them into the principal's office or putting a hand on their chest to keep them from attacking another child. If this lady had smacked a kid in the mouth, she would have been fired, likely arrested, definitely sued and the school district would have been sued as well.

She couldn't retaliate verbally. It would only have escalated the verbal taunts of the kids. If she had resorted calling them names or threatening to harm them, she would have been fired.

Raising the money wasn't her idea. It was started by someone who felt bad that she had been subjected to this treatment and deserved some compensation. The people donating obviously feel the same. I would like to see more funds like this established for all victims of bullying.

Myself, I'll wait to see what she does with all that money before I pass judgement on her.

I'm betting more than half will be donated to her church.

Her job was actually to assist disabled students. She probably has no disciplinary power whatsoever.

She should spend some of that 0,000 and go to weight watchers and buy a Louis Vouitton bag or something. I mean she's really fat and her purse looks like it came from Walgreens.

You're not funny!

Get off the stage!

Booooo!

That's it, Cena_Mark! You're doing God's work, now!

Cena, are you softening up?

Where have you been Highheelbox_Joe? I've been like a rotten peach since I left the private sector.

The private sector.

Whoa there Cena, calm down. I don't swing that way, y'know? You giving tips to the old lady though, I think you need more than that to make a Gmilf. You know what I'm sayin'?

While we're waiting for everyone on the planet to be nice a better lesson to the oppressed might be that they take some kind of action, rather than absorb absurd amounts of abuse and wait for payday.

What sort of action do you suggest?

Community service, lots of it.

Ignoring them doesn't seem to be effective. Someone suggested stopping the bus. Some suggest immediate physical consequence. I think both ideas have merit. The proper method could be debated indefinitely.

I don't disagree with everything you're saying, but I think it sets a bad precedent to reward people for not actively improving or reducing the things that are shitting up their lives.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57458574/karen-kleins-schoo l-bus-bullies-receive-death-threats/

Sounds like this woman is a POE user.

Note: didn't watch the video.

Yes, but as it has been stated a couple of times in the comments by very deep thinkers who also curse a lot because that means they're serious, this lady is old and therefore who cares because other people get bullied.

Record their awful behavior on video and put it online.

Seriously.

Thirding that. Video is an excellent tool for shaming awful people.

Revenge fantasies are so much fun, aren't they?

Yeah. I actually think kids are awesome, though, and would never hurt one. Even these.

I'd bear spray the shit out of their parents, because that's just practical AND fun!

Heroin and Alf will get you through...

I have. That moment when Gandalf is killed by the fat kid and floats away holding the shell... I loved it.

So what should she have done?

You are not glad she gets a windfall.

How could she have controlled them?

I love it when people spell shit wrong when calling other people idiots.