School Safety: 'Zero Tolerance' Policies Common Sense?
Chicago Students Arrested, Suspended for Food Fight; Oldest Is 15.
Eighth-graders Cassandra and Aliyah Russell of Chicago never imagined they'd be
arrested in their school cafeteria, much less for throwing food.
But that's just what happened following lunchtime mayhem last Thursday at the
Perspectives Charter Middle School, south of Chicago. More than two dozen
students, ages 11 to 15, were rounded up by police, arrested and charged with
misdemeanor reckless conduct.
"They took us to jail, fingerprinted us, mugshotted us, or whatever, all
because of a food fight...I was arrested. Handcuffs on," 13-year-old Cassandra
told ABC News.
"We were suspended, went to jail and now have to go to court," said 14-year-old
Aliyah.
The sisters' mother, Erica, told ABC News she's stunned.
"Who does that? Lock children up for throwing a carrot, a biscuit, milk,
Jello," she said. "Who does that?"
The Russell sisters returned to school today after finishing a three-day
suspension for their part in the food fight.
Eighth-graders Cassandra and Aliyah Russell of Chicago never imagined they'd be
arrested in their school cafeteria, much less for throwing food.(Getty Images)
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'Zero Tolerance' Cases Raise Some Eyebrows
Over the past few years, several high-profile student discipline cases have
raised complaints that schools are blurring the distinction between serious
threats to school safety and cases of childish misbehavior.
In one case, a 6-year-old from Delaware was suspended for weapons possession
after bringing his Cub Scout combo eating utensil to class, excited to try it
out at lunch.
Administrators at a Pennsylvania middle school suspended an 11-year-old honor
student who sketched stick figures of her teachers with arrows through their
heads.
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In Georgia, a high school senior was suspended and arrested after officials
found a machete in the back of his truck in the school parking lot. He used the
tool in his part-time landscaping business.
And a Virginia boy was suspended for dying his hair blue -- a color school
administrators said was disruptive.
Advocates of zero tolerance say the policies are necessary -- the only way to
hold students accountable and maintain strict safety standards.
For the Russells and dozens of other students from the Perspectives Charter
Middle School food fight, zero tolerance now means a court date.
"It's wrong because it's a food fight," said 13-year-old Cassandra
Russell."[But] I never thought I could be arrested for a food fight."
Said Erica Russell, "We're worrying about this being on their record...A food
fight? I just can't get over that."
An Illinois state judge will decide later this month whether the charges should
be dismissed or upheld with a penalty of probation or community service. State
law keeps juveniles' criminal records sealed until the students turn 17, and
after that, their records will be wiped clean.
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