South West Illinois News

Red Bud Community Unit School District 132 reported 71 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 71 students during the year. This equates to seven percent of the 1,013 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 26 incidents with violence without physical injury, nine incidents with alcohol and tobacco.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 18. There were 11 incidents of violence without injury. For 13 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 55 suspensions, while 16 girls were suspended.

There were 28 elementary or middle school students, and 43 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 18. There were 15 incidents of violence without injury. For 20 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	0
Violence without injury	11	15
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	8
Other reason	18	18
Total	29	42

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	5	2
1-2 days	13	20
2-3 days	10	9
3-4 days	1	7
4-10 days	0	4
More than 10 days	0	0