Bullied School Bus Monitor Gets a Really Nice Vacation (via GOOD)

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People Are Awesome: Bullied School Bus Monitor Gets a Really Nice Vacation - News - GOOD

This is making the blog rounds, but it's so worth sharing here, too. When the article went up early this morning, the Indiegogo fundraiser was at what the article quotes ($400,000). When I checked just now, it was over $500,000. People are awesome.

The web incubates both cruelty and compassion, and what began as a cringe-inducing piece of senior-abuse porn has become a fundraising juggernaut in the hands of Reddit user Max Sidorov. He started the lets give Karen Klein a Vacation campaign on indiegogo with a goal of $5,000 and within days it has raked in nearly $400,000. That's one heck of a vacation. Sidorov told Mashable that he too had painful experiences of being victimized by bullies. "I know how bad it can feel," he said.