Illinois Valley Times

Bureau Valley Community Unit School District 340 reported 91 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 91 students during the year. This equates to nine percent of the 960 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 14 incidents with violence without physical injury, 26 incidents 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 26. There were two incidents of violence without injury. For 18 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 69 suspensions, while 22 girls were suspended.

There were 53 elementary or middle school students, and 38 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for tobacco, of which there were 24. There were 19 incidents of unspecified reasons. For 29 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	1
Violence with injury	0	2
Violence without injury	2	12
Drug offenses	0	4
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	1	24
Other reason	26	19
Total	29	62

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	11	0
1-2 days	18	17
2-3 days	0	10
3-4 days	0	29
4-10 days	0	6
More than 10 days	0	0