Metro East Sun

Triad Community Unit School District 2 reported 314 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 314 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 3,981 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 37 incidents with violence without physical injury, 50 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, seven incidents with drugs, three 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 210. There were 47 incidents of tobacco. For 124 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 233 suspensions, while 81 girls were suspended.

There were 109 elementary or middle school students, and 205 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 seven. There were four incidents of violence without injury. For seven 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	2	1
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	33	4
Drug offenses	7	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	1	2
Tobacco	47	0
Other reason	210	7
Total	300	14

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	4	0
1-2 days	124	0
2-3 days	103	4
3-4 days	45	3
4-10 days	24	7
More than 10 days	0	0