No, James, you weren't wrong, the punk children who bullied your daughter were wrong. And the punk parents who didn't discipline their own children are wrong, too.  I can sympathize with James because I witnessed my dad do the exact same thing when I was in middle school.  Some students on our bus were rough-housing one day and another kid pulled down the sweater of a girl, exposing her breasts for all to see.  This kid's name was Roland. Now, I had nothing to do with it, and two of us didn't even look alike, yet when friends and family of the girl heard about it, they assumed it was me. More than 40 kids were on the bus and they all knew that wasn't the case, but her supporters didn't care.  My brother and I were threatened repeatedly with physical harm, and we clearly didn't want to ride the bus home. So we made up a reason to not take the bus and begged our father to pick us up.  When he got to the school and demanded to know the truth, he got out of the car and jumped on the bus and said, "Point out to me who keeps messing with you."  Now I may have been scared of the school bullies, but I was more scared of my daddy! So I told him and he walked over to a kid and asked him, "Are you messing with my sons?"  He made it clear we had nothing to do with what we were accused of and said he didn't want to hear about this one boy hurting us.  So this kid pulled out a knife on my dad and threatened him.  My dad laughed, snatched the knife from him and said, "Don't you ever do that again to me or anybody!"  He then looked every kid on the bus in the eyes and made clear that he'd better not hear one story of them bullying his sons or he would be back.  Suffice to say, no one messed with the Martin sons again.  But my dad wasn't the kind of person who would protect just his own sons like that. He was the kind of person who would travel around our Clinton Park neighborhood and break up kids fighting, even following some home to talk to their parents and grandparents.
If you think I'm one of these folks who are upset with James Jones, the Florida father who jumped on his daughter's bus to confront the bullies who were terrorizing her, you've got another think