when my son came home, i asked him. i said, what happened at school today ? and he start telling me, but i said to him the school gave me one story and now you give me a different one. so i don t know who to believe. you don t think the school is going to lie to you. according to diane, the principal calls a few days after the dean to discuss the problem. the principal call and she told me there was an incident that happened in the school with christoph. she was going to look into it and get back to me. she never call me back. it s not until the reporter shows diane the beating that she realizes what happened. i was like, oh, my god. i can t believe this. i am pissed. that was my words. nobody have no right to do that to anybody s children. i don t care if my child was rude to you. you have no right putting your hand on him. christoph refuses to return to school for his sophomore year and moves to his mother s
the silent video is from three months earlier and shows a 15-year-old student kristof john arriving in his high school. kristof s mom, diane. every child going to that school have a photo i.d. when you enter the school, you have to scan the i.d. according to christoph, the school security dean and teacher stefan hudson asks him to step to the side when his i.d. doesn t work. christoph says when he tries to go through again, the dean becomes enraged believing he is acting disrespectfully. immediately i could see it was in violation of the rules of the department of education and probably it looked like something that was illegal possibly criminal to me. we went to diane s house to show her the video of her son involved in this altercation with the dean. when i first saw the video, i
the bus driver asks her to supervise the back of the bus on the ride home from school. it was always the same kids that went to the back of the bus. every once in awhile, they d make a snide remark. i told the bus driver i didn t want to go back there. oh, my god. you re so fat. out of earshot of the bus driver, the group of four rowdy boys start taunting karen. recording the whole thing on a camera phone. you re so fat. you take up the entire seat. when kids bully, what they re looking for is a vulnerable target and a big reaction from that target. that s what makes bullying fun. triple sag? triple sag. triple z. look at her [ bleep ] stomach. but karen keeps her composure for the time being. i was trying to ignore them. i really was. you re a troll.
caught on camera vicious behavior on a school bus brings a bus monitor to her breaking point. are you sweating? are you sweating? why is there water on your face? i m crying. i thought it was only kids that got bullied. i really didn t think too much about adults. unless you have something nice to say, don t say anything at all. how about you shut the [ bleep ] up? june 18, 2012. greece, new york. for students at athena middle school, it s the last week of classes before summer break. 68-year-old karen klein is a bus monitor and has worked in the school system for more than 20 years.
got nervous. like my belly start hurting. my stomach left where it was and went somewhere else. i see the dean grab on to him and throw him down. picks him up, throw him into a table violently. picks him up again and throw him to the ground. at 5 5, 120 pounds, the 15-year-old boy is no match for the dean who is more than twice his size. they throw him around like a rag doll. so he was trying to get up. but he couldn t. the man had him in a lockdown there. for christoph s mom, the only thing worse than watching the brutality against her son is knowing that when he came home that day and told her what happened, she didn t believe him. she says the school told her it was christoph who was aggressive toward a teacher. the same dean who was beating on my child is the same dean that call me.