CHICAGO -- It may have started with a tossed cookie or an airborne orange, but a food fight at a middle school that left adults ducking for cover landed 25 students in jail.
According to the New York Times, the fight happened last Thursday at the Calumet middle-school campus of Perspectives Charter Schools. Police rounded up and arrested 25 of the students, ages 11 to 15. The students were charged with reckless conduct.
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The Times reports that many of the students' parents are upset and want to know why their children were treated like criminals for an 'age-old adolescent prank.'
DISCUSS: What do you think about the arrest of the students? Click on "Add a Comment" below to tell us.The students were released Thursday night, but were suspended for two days by the school.
