South Cook News

Reavis Township High School District 220 reported 212 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The district removed four students to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to less than one percent of the 1,983 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 19 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 16 incidents with violence without physical injury, six incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 21 incidents with drugs, two 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 nine. There were four incidents of violence with injury. For seven incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 153 suspensions, while 59 girls were suspended.

There were 212 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 139. There were 21 incidents of drug offense. For 115 incidents, students were suspended for one to two 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	5
Violence with injury	4	15
Violence without injury	0	16
Drug offenses	0	21
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	2
Tobacco	1	0
Other reason	9	139
Total	14	198

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	7	115
2-3 days	5	13
3-4 days	0	65
4-10 days	2	5
More than 10 days	0	0