Parents Take a Stand Kids aren't alone in the fight to stop
bullying Across the nation, more and more people are confronting
the issue of bullying. And it's not just kids who are standing
up to it — it's parents, too. Last September, one father in
Central Florida gained national attention when he stood up for
his daughter. Chatari Jones, 13, was being bullied. Her dad,
James, said at the time that he discovered she had been skipping
school because of the bullying. "As a parent, you feel for your
kid," James told the Kids Press Corps recently. "I had heard
enough and I know my daughter is not a liar and I trust my
daughter." James decided to confront the students who were
bullying his daughter, so he boarded the school bus and
threatened the alleged bullies as well as the bus driver. After
the incident, James was arrested and charged with disorderly
conduct and disrupting a school function. He said at the time he
was just standing up for his daughter. But he admitted he should
not have done what he did. "At th