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The kids, aged 11 to 15, were arrested Thursday after the food fight at Perspectives Charter Schools Calumet Campus on Chicago's South Side, according to reports.
"I saw a tray fly up in the air, and then I saw an orange fly," student Jordan Grevious told CBS2Chicago. 'Then, I heard the words 'food fight.'"
Three people were injured in the food melee, but parents of the arrested children worry that their records will hurt their chances at higher education or a job, the station said.
"These kids are going to have records for things that they potentially did not even do," parent Monique Greene told the station.
The children were held for hours at the police station, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct, the New York Times said. They've also been suspended for two days from school.
"They're all scared," parent Erica Russell told the Times. "You never know how children will be impacted by that. I was all for some other kind of punishment, but not jail. Who hasn't had a food fight?"
Do you think the punishment fits the crime? Spill it in the comments.
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11-12-2009 @7:16PM ron said... Zero tolerance is a good thing. Weapons, drugs and other dangerous items, it's a good policy. This type of action is a misuse of a good policy.
I've hear of other food fights where the results were not as severe. In fact I don't think I've ever heard of one that resulted in arrest of the kids.
Kinda speaks for itself, dont it.
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11-12-2009 @7:33PM Dre said... Thank you Mam
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11-13-2009 @6:30AM Jill said... The general public doesn't understand the school lunch room today. It is a large expanse, filled with 500 plus "children" at times. These "children" are not as innocent as one would think... Many are involved in drugs, violence. Some already have criminal records. Some are pregnant. These really are not children as we older folks remember our middle school days. I'm sure this was a mob scene. For all of the posters who were involved in "many food fights", obviously suspension and in-school discipline didn't do the trick. Kids don't take adults seriously at this age. Let's hope that armed officers made an impact. Although, it sounds like the parents may have squashed any lesson they may have learned from this.
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