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Students suspended or expelled 26 times in a single school year in Morrison Community Unit School District 6

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Morrison Community Unit School District 6 reported 26 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 26 students during the year. This equates to three percent of the 935 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for 13 incidents with violence that caused physical injury, six incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with alcohol and tobacco.

Boy students received 16 suspensions, while 10 girls were suspended.

There were 26 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were 13. There were six incidents of violence without injury. For 15 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.

Morrison Community Unit School District 6 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol1
Violence with injury13
Violence without injury6
Drug offenses0
Firearm0
Other dangerous weapons0
Tobacco1
Other reason5
Total26
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less3
1-2 days15
2-3 days5
3-4 days0
4-10 days3
More than 10 days0

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