North Egypt News

Mount Vernon School District 80 reported 134 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 134 students during the year. This equates to nine percent of the 1,554 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for six incidents with alcohol and tobacco, two incidents with drugs, 11 incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,one incident 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 89. There were two incidents of firearm. For 64 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 85 suspensions, while 49 girls were suspended.

There were 134 elementary or middle 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 25. There were nine incidents of firearm. For 18 incidents, students were suspended for four to 10 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	0	0
Drug offenses	0	2
Firearm	2	9
Other dangerous weapons	0	1
Tobacco	1	5
Other reason	89	25
Total	92	42

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	4	0
1-2 days	64	11
2-3 days	3	1
3-4 days	20	12
4-10 days	1	18
More than 10 days	0	0