Grundy Reporter

Morris Community High School District 101 reported 163 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 163 students during the year. This equates to 19 percent of the 843 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for eight incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 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 140. There were two incidents of violence without injury. For 93 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 106 suspensions, while 57 girls were suspended.

There were 163 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were seven. There were seven incidents of unspecified reasons. For six 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	1	7
Violence without injury	2	0
Drug offenses	0	3
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	1	1
Other reason	140	7
Total	144	19

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	49	3
1-2 days	93	6
2-3 days	2	3
3-4 days	0	1
4-10 days	0	6
More than 10 days	0	0