At one point Thursday morning, e-mails were pouring into
Greece Athena Middle School Principal Dave Richardson's inbox at a rate of more
than 30 a minute.
Between Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon, he
received more than 4,000 electronic missives from around the world decrying the
horrid behavior of a few of his students, who were captured on video Monday
taunting and teasing 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein with tirades of cruel,
profane invective.
The video, posted to YouTube early Wednesday, set off an
Internet maelstrom that generated hundreds of notes of support for Klein,
raised more than $440,000 in donations in just two days to send her on a nice
vacation and made Klein, a grandmother of eight, the media star of the moment.
The YouTube video hits had grown exponentially, reaching 2.2 million views by
Thursday evening.
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