South Cook News

Argo Community High School District 217 reported 1,238 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 three students to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to less than one percent of the 1,886 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for three incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 27 incidents with violence without physical injury, 65 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 58 incidents with drugs, five incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,seven 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 980. There were 60 incidents of tobacco. For 1,017 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 823 suspensions, while 415 girls were suspended.

There were 1,238 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 93. There were 56 incidents of drug offense. For 77 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	0	3
Violence without injury	1	26
Drug offenses	2	56
Firearm	0	5
Other dangerous weapons	1	6
Tobacco	60	3
Other reason	980	93
Total	1044	194

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	1
1-2 days	1017	42
2-3 days	24	33
3-4 days	2	77
4-10 days	1	41
More than 10 days	0	0