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Students at Lake Forest School District 67 suspended or expelled 10 times in a single school year

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Jason Helfer Chief Education Officer - Instruction | Twitter

Jason Helfer Chief Education Officer - Instruction | Twitter

Lake Forest School District 67 reported 10 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 10 students during the year. This equates to less than one percent of the 1,587 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for four incidents with violence that caused physical injury, two incidents with violence without physical injury.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for violence with injury, of which there were four. There were four incidents of unspecified reasons. For seven incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 10 suspensions.

There were 10 elementary or middle school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

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.

Lake Forest School District 67 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol0
Violence with injury4
Violence without injury2
Drug offenses0
Firearm0
Other dangerous weapons0
Tobacco0
Other reason4
Total10
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less2
1-2 days7
2-3 days1
3-4 days0
4-10 days0
More than 10 days0

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