This is just sickening.

The food fight here started the way such bouts do in school lunchrooms most anywhere: an apple was tossed, a cookie turned into a torpedo, and an orange plunked someone in the head. Within minutes, dozens of middle-school students had joined in the ruckus, and spattered adults were ducking for cover.

By the end of the day, 25 of the students, ages 11 to 15, had been rounded up, arrested, taken from school and put in jail. A spokesman for the Chicago police said the charges were reckless conduct, a misdemeanor.

There are those out there who make a big deal about making sure that kids in school say the Pledge of Allegiance, which states that we live in a nation “with liberty and justice for all.”

I wonder how many of these students, just arrested and put in jail for being a kid, believe that now?

(link via Radley Balko)