South Cook News

Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215 reported 2,749 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 2749 students during the year. This equates to 85 percent of the 3,238 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 44 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 85 incidents with violence without physical injury, 10 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 23 incidents with drugs, four incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,11 incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 2,235. There were 35 incidents of violence without injury. For 1,825 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 1,451 suspensions, while 1,081 girls were suspended.

There were 2,749 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 337. There were 50 incidents of violence without injury. For 126 incidents, students were suspended for three to four days.

Illinois ranks as the 5th state in terms of the overall number of schools and student enrollment among all states.

Illinois lawmakers enacted laws in 2015 to restrict schools from disciplining a disproportionate number of Black and minority students out of school and into the criminal justice system, often for minor misbehavior.

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
Alcohol	0	2
Violence with injury	15	29
Violence without injury	35	50
Drug offenses	18	5
Firearm	2	2
Other dangerous weapons	4	7
Tobacco	5	3
Other reason	2235	337
Total	2314	435

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	1825	124
2-3 days	311	70
3-4 days	102	126
4-10 days	76	115
More than 10 days	0	0