Lake County Gazette

Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73 reported 44 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 44 students during the year. This equates to one percent of the 3,557 students enrolled.

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

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 26. There were two incidents of violence without injury. For 22 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 35 suspensions, while nine girls were suspended.

There were 44 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 10. There were four incidents of violence without injury. For nine 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	1	1
Violence without injury	2	4
Drug offenses	0	0
Firearm	0	0
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	26	10
Total	29	15

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	1	0
1-2 days	22	9
2-3 days	5	3
3-4 days	0	2
4-10 days	0	1
More than 10 days	1	0