McHenry Times

McHenry Community High School District 156 reported 68 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 68 students during the year. This equates to three percent of the 2,185 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for nine incidents with alcohol and tobacco, 49 incidents with drugs, one incident witha dangerous weapon firearm.

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

Boy students received 43 suspensions, while 25 girls were suspended.

There were 68 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for drug offense, of which there were 49. There were nine incidents of alcohol. For 59 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	9
Violence with injury	0	0
Violence without injury	0	0
Drug offenses	0	49
Firearm	0	1
Other dangerous weapons	0	0
Tobacco	0	0
Other reason	7	2
Total	7	61

	In-school Suspension	Out-of-school Suspension
One day or less	1	0
1-2 days	5	0
2-3 days	0	1
3-4 days	1	1
4-10 days	0	59
More than 10 days	0	0