Grundy Reporter

Minooka Community High School District 111 reported 294 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 294 students during the year. This equates to 11 percent of the 2,783 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for six incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 32 incidents with violence without physical injury, 60 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 57 incidents with drugs, nine 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 55. There was one incident of violence with injury. For 55 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 199 suspensions, while 95 girls were suspended.

There were 294 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 75. There were 58 incidents of tobacco. For 96 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	2
Violence with injury	1	5
Violence without injury	0	32
Drug offenses	0	57
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	8
Tobacco	0	58
Other reason	55	75
Total	57	237

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	55	94
2-3 days	0	27
3-4 days	0	19
4-10 days	2	96
More than 10 days	0	1