Chambana Sun

Tolono Community Unit School District 7 reported 61 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 61 students during the year. This equates to four percent of the 1,526 students enrolled.

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

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were five. There was one incident of violence without injury. For two incidents, students were suspended for a day or less.

Boy students received 47 suspensions, while 14 girls were suspended.

There were 46 elementary or middle school students, and 15 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 39. There were six incidents of violence with injury. For 31 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	1
Violence with injury	0	6
Violence without injury	1	5
Drug offenses	0	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	5	39
Total	6	55

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	2	0
1-2 days	2	31
2-3 days	2	8
3-4 days	0	10
4-10 days	0	6
More than 10 days	0	0