Kankakee Times

Iroquois County Community Unit School District 9 reported 69 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 69 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 904 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 41 incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, nine incidents with drugs, two incidents with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

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

Boy students received 49 suspensions, while 20 girls were suspended.

There were 37 elementary or middle school students, and 32 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 39. There were 11 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 23 incidents, students were suspended for two to three 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	3
Violence with injury	0	1
Violence without injury	2	39
Drug offenses	0	9
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	2
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	2	11
Total	4	65

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	3
1-2 days	2	12
2-3 days	1	23
3-4 days	1	10
4-10 days	0	17
More than 10 days	0	0