The bullied bus monitor made famous by a viral video is calling it quits after receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations.

Karen Klein, a grandmother from suburban Rochester, N.Y., told the Associated Press on Friday that she is leaving her job. She has been a bus monitor for the Greece School District for three years.

Klein, 68, became a household name after a viral video showed four seventh-graders taunting and berating her with insults and profanity. The 10-minute video sparked worldwide outrage against the boys' behavior. An online fundraising effort on Klein's behalf raised more than $700,000 in donations.

She told the AP her retirement is not because of what happened on the last day of school in June, but because it's time to move on.

Klein reportedly made only $15,506 a year, according to the Indiegogo campaign page, "Lets Give Karen – The bus monitor – H Klein A Vacation!." At the time of the campaign, Southwest Airlines also offered to fly Klein and nine other people to Disneyland for free.

The school district in Greece, N.Y., where the incident happened, has suspended the four Athena Middle School students for a year. Two of the students and the father of a third have apologized to Klein via statements to local police.

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In this image taken from AP video, bus monitor Karen Klein speaks during an interview June 21.

One-year school suspensions were handed down Friday to four seventh-graders who were accused of bullying a bus monitor in Greece, N.Y.,  in a case that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the 68-year-old woman.

The Greece Central School District said the four boys and their parents agreed to the punishment, NBC station WHEC of Rochester reported.

The bullying was captured on video, posted on the Internet and triggered widespread outrage, but was followed by an effort to raise a little money to send Karen Klein on a nice vacation. That might turn out to be a real nice vacation: By Friday afternoon, the “Lets Give Karen – The bus monitor – H Klein A Vacation!” campaign on Indiegogo.com, a site devoted to raising money for various causes, had raised $667,000.

"This is definitely the highest-grossing and fastest-grossing campaign we've ever seen," Indiegogo.com spokesperson Rose Levy told msnbc.com last week.

WHEC reported that during the one-year suspension, each student will attend an alternative program at the district’s reengagement center. They will also be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens and will also have to complete a formal program in bullying prevention, respect and responsibility. 

Donations for bullied bus monitor soar 

The YouTube video that started it all emerged in the middle of last week. It goes on for 10 minutes and shows the four boys repeatedly harassing Klein on the last day of school. 

All four students have since sent written apologies to Klein through the Greece Police Department. Klein has also met with some of their parents, but not the boys themselves.

This article includes reporting from NBC station WHEC of Rochester, N.Y., and msnbc.com staff.

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Updated at 6:16 p.m. ET: Bullied school bus monitor Karen Klein might have more than $335,000 to vacation far away from the Greece, N.Y., pupils who bullied her in a profanity-laced video that went viral this week.

Nearly 10,000 online sympathizers had donated that much money by Thursday evening on the fund-raising site Indiegogo.com in a campaign called “Lets Give Karen – The bus monitor – H Klein A Vacation.”

Graphic content warning: The video on YouTube 

The fund-raising was set up through a reddit.com member, identified as Max Sidorov of Toronto, Canada, after he saw the video called "Making the Bus Monitor Cry" posted to YouTube on Monday.

“It’s an incredible campaign,” Slava Rubin, who cofounded Indiegogo.com in 2008, told msnbc.com. “We’re seeing good Samaritans come together to support this brave woman.”

An Indiegogo spokesperson earlier told msnbc.com that the website was in touch with Klein, and she  would receive her money when the campaign is over, scheduled for July 20.

Indiegogo charges 4 percent for the fund-raising, Rubin said.

Klein was featured Thursday on the TODAY show, and later said she doesn't really want the “nasty kids” charged.

On TODAY.com: Karen Klein won't press charges 

Earlier: Vacation of a lifetime pledged for bus monitor bullied in viral video

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Updated 10:30 a.m. Thursday ET: Karen Klein, a school bus monitor of Greece, N.Y., depicted being verbally bullied in a video gone viral, may have the last laugh.

By mid-morning Thursday on the fund-raising site indiegogo.com, nearly 8,000 donors had pledged more than $150,000 in a campaign called “Lets Give Karen – The bus monitor – H Klein A Vacation.”

The fund-raising was set up through a reddit.com member, identified as Max Sidorov of Toronto, Canada.

An Indiegogo spokesperson told msnbc.com that the website was in touch with Klein, who will receive all the money raised through its site when the campaign is over, scheduled July 20.

Karen Klein talks to Matt Lauer on TODAY

A video called "Making the Bus Monitor Cry" was posted to YouTube on Monday and had been seen by more than 100,000 viewers by Wednesday evening. The video shows students yelling at Klein and making fun of her weight and other physical conditions.

Graphic content warning: The video on YouTube 

NBC television station WHEC of Rochester, N.Y., on Wednesday confirmed with the Greece School District that Klein was the subject of the middle school students’ heckling.

An outpouring of support for Klein emerged after her identity became known.

While WHEC was interviewing Klein, the station reported, people were stopping over and flowers were being delivered.

Klein said she still can’t believe this happened. The video was taken by a student who is always very kind to her, she said.

“It’s just plain mean, and no one should have to live with that,” she said.

In her 20-plus years as a bus driver and monitor with the Greece Central Schools, Klein said she has never run into this kind of behavior.

See the original story at WHEC.com

“Everything started out as usual. I don’t know what happened,” she said.

Klein said the four kids in the video often misbehave, but what happened Monday was taking things to a whole new level.

Greece police and school district officials are investigating three videos, including the one titled "Making the Bus Monitor Cry." 

Debra Hoeft, Greece School District, said, “We do not tolerate harassment of staff or students. While we can not comment on specific student discipline, we can say that students found to be involved will face strong disciplinary actions.”

In one of the videos, the kids are calling her names, swearing at her and even making physical threats. Klein doesn’t say much to the middle schoolers.

“I was trying to just ignore,” Klein said. “I’m hoping they would go away, but it doesn’t work.”

Klein said she didn’t know about the video until Wednesday morning, and watched it for the first time at the police station when she went to help them with their investigation.

Klein told WHEC she plans to return to work but not on a bus carrying those students.

Msnbc.com's Jim Gold contributed to this article. Follow him on Facebook here.

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