Kankakee Times

Iroquois West Community Unit School District 10 reported 43 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 43 students during the year. This equates to five percent of the 841 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for nine incidents with violence that caused physical injury, one incident with violence without physical injury, three incidents with drugs, one incident 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 three incidents of violence with injury. For eight incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 38 suspensions, while five girls were suspended.

There were 14 elementary or middle school students, and 29 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 21. There were six incidents of violence with injury. For 16 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	3	6
Violence without injury	0	1
Drug offenses	0	3
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	8	21
Total	11	32

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	1	0
1-2 days	8	16
2-3 days	0	5
3-4 days	2	11
4-10 days	0	0
More than 10 days	0	0