West Cook News

Riverside Brookfield Township School District 208 reported 127 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 127 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 1,625 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for three incidents with violence without physical injury, 14 incidents with alcohol and tobacco, eight incidents with drugs, two 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 45. There were 11 incidents of tobacco. For 57 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 100 suspensions, while 27 girls were suspended.

There were 127 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 55. There were eight incidents of drug offense. For 46 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	0
Violence without injury	2	1
Drug offenses	0	8
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	2
Tobacco	11	3
Other reason	45	55
Total	58	69

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	0	0
1-2 days	57	46
2-3 days	1	3
3-4 days	0	16
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0