X-POST from GD: Impromptu graduation ceremony is lesson in kindness
It was suggested I post here, as this group may appreciate this story. 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023073035
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You are always an inspiration! 
Well, I don't know that I'm inspiring, but I try to find and share things that are inspirational.
Bullied NY bus monitor creates foundation to teach kindness
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/23/bullied-ny-bus-monitor-creates-foundation-to-teach-kindness/#ixzz2X3lGnQTi
GREECE, N.Y. – It's been a year since Karen Klein became known as the bullied bus monitor at the center of a 10-minute cellphone video that unleashed a flood of donations.
At her upstate New York home in suburban Rochester, she reflected on the year since the taunts and threats she endured from four seventh-grade boys moved thousands of strangers to give her money for a vacation. More than $700,000 poured in.
Now retired, Klein says she used $100,000 to seed the Karen Klein Anti-Bullying Foundation to promote kindness. Some proceeds have helped family and friends, and she hopes to use some to fix up the house where she's lived for 46 years.
Daughter Amanda Klein-Romig says such fame would change a lot of people, but her mother has remained the same.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/23/bullied-ny-bus-monitor-creates-foundation-to-teach-kindness/#ixzz2X3lNaKt8
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bringing in other links. I engage at reddit and wanted to give them kudos.
Thanks for this update! I'll share out and about at DU shortly.
http://www.ourcollectivegood.com/community-education-opinion/update-bullied-ny-bus-monitor-teaches-kindness/