South Cook News

Bloom Township High School District 206 reported 644 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 644 students during the year. This equates to 22 percent of the 2,888 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 12 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 209 incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 24 incidents with drugs, two incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,six 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 eight. There were six incidents of violence without injury. For 10 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 388 suspensions, while 208 girls were suspended.

There were 644 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 381. There were 203 incidents of violence without injury. For 239 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	0
Violence with injury	0	12
Violence without injury	6	203
Drug offenses	1	23
Firearm	0	2
Other dangerous weapons	0	6
Tobacco	0	2
Other reason	8	381
Total	15	629

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	4
1-2 days	10	239
2-3 days	1	142
3-4 days	0	143
4-10 days	2	101
More than 10 days	0	0