Kankakee Times

Bradley-Bourbonnais Consolidated High School District 307 reported 627 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 627 students during the year. This equates to 33 percent of the 1,883 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 13 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 32 incidents with violence without physical injury, seven incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 12 incidents with drugs, one incident witha dangerous weapon firearm,four 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 447. There were six incidents of tobacco. For 424 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 395 suspensions, while 232 girls were suspended.

There were 627 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 111. There were 30 incidents of violence without injury. For 58 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	0
Violence with injury	0	13
Violence without injury	2	30
Drug offenses	0	12
Firearm	0	1
Other dangerous weapons	0	4
Tobacco	6	1
Other reason	447	111
Total	455	172

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	424	33
2-3 days	28	58
3-4 days	3	57
4-10 days	0	24
More than 10 days	0	0