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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?"
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