South Cook News

Lemont Township High School District 210 reported 45 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 one student to alternative settings instead of suspending or expelling them. This equates to less than one percent of the 1,364 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence without physical injury, nine incidents with alcohol and tobacco, nine incidents with drugs, one incident with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

Boy students received 28 suspensions, while 17 girls were suspended.

There were 45 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 22. There were nine incidents of drug offense. For 22 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		3
Violence with injury		0
Violence without injury		4
Drug offenses		9
Firearm		0
Other dangerous weapons		1
Tobacco		6
Other reason		22
Total		45

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less		0
1-2 days		22
2-3 days		0
3-4 days		9
4-10 days		14
More than 10 days		0