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District reports Triopia Community Unit School District 27 suspended or expelled students 14 times in a single school year

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Triopia Community Unit School District 27 reported 14 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 14 students during the year. This equates to four percent of the 382 students enrolled.

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

The district reported that most in-school suspension was given for drug offense, of which there was one. For one incident, student was suspended for two to three days.

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

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

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for tobacco, of which there were eight. There were three incidents of violence without injury. For seven incidents, students were suspended for two to three 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.

Triopia Community Unit School District 27 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol00
Violence with injury01
Violence without injury03
Drug offenses11
Firearm00
Other dangerous weapons00
Tobacco08
Other reason00
Total113
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less00
1-2 days01
2-3 days17
3-4 days02
4-10 days03
More than 10 days00

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