Chambana Sun

Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District 3 reported 35 suspensions or expulsions for the 2020-2021 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 35 students during the year. This equates to one percent of the 3,170 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 10 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, one incident with violence without physical injury, five incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were eight. There were four incidents of tobacco. For seven incidents, students were suspended for a day or less.

Boy students received 26 suspensions, while nine girls were suspended.

There were 18 elementary or middle school students, and 17 high school students suspended in 2020-2021 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were 10. There were 10 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 11 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	0	10
Violence without injury	0	1
Drug offenses	1	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	4	1
Other reason	8	10
Total	13	22

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	7	0
1-2 days	6	11
2-3 days	0	5
3-4 days	0	4
4-10 days	0	2
More than 10 days	0	0