Metro East Sun

Harmony Emge School District 175 reported 96 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 96 students during the year. This equates to 13 percent of the 766 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, 81 incidents with violence without physical injury, one incident with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

Boy students received 75 suspensions, while 21 girls were suspended.

There were 96 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were 81. There were 12 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 45 incidents, students were suspended for three to four 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
Violence with injury		1
Violence without injury		81
Drug offenses		0
Firearm		0
Other dangerous weapons		1
Tobacco		1
Other reason		12
Total		96

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less		0
1-2 days		11
2-3 days		23
3-4 days		45
4-10 days		17
More than 10 days		0