NEW YORK â€" The upstate New York school bus monitor who was bullied by four seventh-graders says she's satisfied that they're being suspended for a year.
Karen Klein said Saturday that she wants to meet with the boys who tormented her.
"Oh yes, I would like to talk to them!" said the 68-year-old, speaking from her home in Rochester. "I want to ask them why they did it."
The four boys were captured on video mercilessly taunting Klein as she sat on the bus and gradually broke down in tears.
On Friday, the school system in the Rochester suburb of Greece suspended the four middle school students for a year. They will attend an alternative school, keeping them from regular bus transportation.
The punishment is "fine with me," Klein told the Associated Press.
A benefit of the video's going viral, she said, "is that it's putting people into action, making them talk to their children, making them teach them what they should not do."
She received letters of apology from three of the boys and their families, but said last week that she didn't believe the youths were sincere.
On Saturday, Klein said she had accepted the newest apology she received several days ago â€" in a letter from the fourth boy.
"He said he was sorry, and that he didn't mean to do it," Klein said. "And I think he means it."
A fund drive that was launched to raise $5,000 to help Klein take a vacation had raised more than $667,000 as of Friday. Klein, who has eight grandchildren, including one with Down syndrome, said she would donate part of the money to support research.
And she wants to pay off all her bills.
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