North Cook News

Golf Elementary School District 67 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 10 percent of the 684 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for eight incidents with violence that caused physical injury, 28 incidents with violence without physical injury, two incidents with drugs.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 21. There were 19 incidents of violence without injury. For 31 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

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

There were 71 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 12. There were nine incidents of violence without injury. For 16 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	0
Violence with injury	2	6
Violence without injury	19	9
Drug offenses	0	2
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	21	12
Total	42	29

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	8	0
1-2 days	31	16
2-3 days	3	7
3-4 days	0	5
4-10 days	0	1
More than 10 days	0	0