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Students at Depue Community Unit School District 103 suspended or expelled 23 times in a single school year

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Dr. Donna Leak Vice-Chair - Flossmoor | firststudentinc.com

Dr. Donna Leak Vice-Chair - Flossmoor | firststudentinc.com

Depue Community Unit School District 103 reported 23 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 23 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 332 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for two incidents with violence that caused physical injury, eight incidents with violence without physical injury, three incidents with alcohol and tobacco, one incident with drugs, one incident with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for tobacco, of which there were three. For three incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 19 suspensions, while four girls were suspended.

There were 13 elementary or middle school students, and 10 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence without injury, of which there were eight. There were eight incidents of unspecified reasons. For nine 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.

Depue Community Unit School District 103 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol00
Violence with injury02
Violence without injury08
Drug offenses01
Firearm00
Other dangerous weapons01
Tobacco30
Other reason08
Total320
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less00
1-2 days39
2-3 days05
3-4 days04
4-10 days02
More than 10 days00

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