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25 middle school students arrested for food fight in Chicago

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:15 AM EST
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excerpt:"he New York Times reported yesterday that 25 students ages 11-15 were arrested for a food fight in the school cafeteria at a middle school in Chicago. The children were rounded-up, arrested, put in jail for eight hours, and charged with a misdemeanor for reckless conduct. The students were also suspended for two days from school.

Diana Shulla-Cose, President and co-founder of Perspectives Charter Schools, said that they have an on-campus police officer who had to call the police for back-up and then even additional police had to be called because the food fight escalated and that resulted in the large number of arrests. Diana Shulla-Cose described the food fight as "unfortunate" and added, "We don't take this lightly."

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Wow, how bad must a food fight get to get coverage in the New York Times? This bad, apparently

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  • 6 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:16 AM EST
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Simplistic Reality

LOL. I hope someone has a cell phone video recording of this..... :P

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  • 5 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:51 AM EST
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Waynester

I say let them have an occasional food fight, it beats an actual beat down/murder any day.

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  • 7 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:54 AM EST
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ThreeCents

Make them clean up the mess and clean the chalk board erasers. Let the kids vent some.

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  • 8 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:19 AM EST
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jbird

Sounds like many punches were thrown as well. Cant imagine the cops responding to a mere Junior High food fight.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:25 AM EST
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Waynester
Cant imagine the cops responding to a mere Junior High food fight.

After they labeled a 6 year old a sexual harasser, nothing surprises me anymore.

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  • 4 votes
#5.1 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:36 AM EST
{"commentId":10633240,"authorDomain":"eric24"}
Simplistic Reality

Hey.. its Obama's hometown Chicago. Corruption, crime.. nothing surprises me anymore form that city.

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  • 1 vote
#5.2 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:28 AM EST
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jbird

Sorry, but I'm not gonna be evil enough to politicize a kid's foodfight. Low blow, Simplistic!

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  • 1 vote
#5.3 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:01 AM EST
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{"commentId":10633418,"authorDomain":"rockne1865"}
rockne1865

They should have made the kids stay after school and clean up the mess.

but instead they over reacted!

the people involved in this need to be fired.

what next a firing squad on the football field?

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  • 2 votes
Reply#6 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:43 AM EST
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rockne1865

Re

("Hey.. its Obama's hometown Chicago. Corruption, crime.. nothing surprises me anymore form that city".)

Yep food fights began with Obama and its the end of the world as we know it the sky is falling everything’s Obama's fault! (Do ya think Al Capone was Obama's fault too?)

Over react much?

It was a food fight get over it!

looks to me like things are getting better! No knives no guns!

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  • 3 votes
Reply#7 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:04 AM EST
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Jack Huang

Ummm, what exactly entails "reckless conduct"? If punches were thrown, the charge would likely be assault. "Reckless conduct" sounds weak.

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  • 1 vote
Reply#8 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:14 AM EST
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Scott (Scoop) Butki

zero tolerance for food fight?

wwjbd (what would john belushi do)

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  • 2 votes
Reply#9 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:38 AM EST
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Par4TheCourse

I would have all of them in the Cafeteria cleaning it up for a month, and working the line for a month.

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  • 5 votes
Reply#10 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:53 AM EST
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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Seems appropriate punishment to me

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  • 2 votes
#10.1 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:25 PM EST
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jbird

I wonder just how many pissed off parents will have confronted administrators about this, when its all over. How many will lose their positions? This was a huge over reaction to exuberant youth! They must have forgotten what it is like. gonna be 42 and I still feel like a kid at times.

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