What are the suspension rates for each school year.
February 10, 2020
As reported during the 2018-2019 school year, there was 11.6% of students who had been suspended.
With a bit more of digging, we came to a conclusion, with the help of the Illinois report card, that there was a total of 415 students that were suspended in total.
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Abigail Gonzalez • Feb 14, 2020 at 1:12 pm
Genge- I was wondering if these stats are just from Morton east or the whole district 201. I would have also liked to know what the total was out of. You said there was a total of 415 students suspended, but out of how any students. I also think suspension is useless and a waste of time, research has shown that suspension can actually cause more harm than good, with intensifying behavior problems and leading to academic problems.
Jaime Avalos • Feb 14, 2020 at 12:38 pm
Genge- 415 students where suspended? that is way to many students i think theirs a easy solution to fix this. If students ignored things that people tell them like if someone is saying things about them and ignore it there wouldn’t be as many fights also maybe if students stopped saying stuff to each other that would be good to. on Npr.org between 2012 and 2016 The proportion of all students suspended from school at least once during the year fell from 5.6 percent to 4.7 percent.
kenia Salgado • Feb 14, 2020 at 12:34 pm
Genge- I am a bit shocked because the number of students is around 1,000 students currently. Out of these students 415 got suspended. I am a bit disappointed by it becase they are losing their education while instead of getting them to do more work. Our school isn’t ranking as high as other school academically, which is sad becase if we rank so poorly then we are no competition to other countries and we risk so manythings out of or education.
Julian Betancourt • Feb 14, 2020 at 12:25 pm
Genge- What deams the difference between an in school and out of school suspension, is there main differences like the possibility of violence or more mynute ones like repeat offense? Also, who decides which type of suspension you get?
Jaydi Sanchez • Feb 14, 2020 at 10:40 am
I think that suspension rate is rising and it not benefiting the school. The portion of all students suspended from school at least once during the year fell from 5.6 percent to 4.7 percent. Among high school students, the percentage suspended fell even more, from 9.6 to 7.6 percent. Suspension rates fell around the country, in each of the biggest-population states since last year around December.
Oscar Gonzalez • Feb 14, 2020 at 10:20 am
Genge, I feel like every year more students are getting suspended. There are fights constantly which cause the students to get suspended from school, but that means there is a lesson to be learned.
Juan Reyes • Feb 14, 2020 at 10:15 am
Genge- I’m honestly scared but also not surprised. A lot of kids nowadays fall on to drugs and it is truly saddening but no actions are taken to prevent it. Our school should add more precaution methods be more strict. According to some research i found, suspensions are caused by those whom are around you. I truly believe this because people who you decide to give time to will change and mold you to fit in with the. Aside from this, it is easier to do bad things such as drugs or fighting when you’re in a group because you justify it because everybody else does it. It is scary to realize the future of our country, us teens, are being so detrimental to our schools. It has to end, 11.6 % is a big number for our school and we should initiate the change. Being a drugie or fighter is not cool, it just ruins your future. Being suspended is not cool and we as teens have built this ideology where being bad is cool. It needs to end, in order for us to be successful this whole idea of being a savage needs to end. Therefore, i wouldn’t know what i would do if i ever got suspended, but these numbers need to go down, and now.
Valery Munoz • Feb 14, 2020 at 10:13 am
I think it’s really sad at that amount of students being suspended because honestly most of the students who are being suspended are students that have minor “offenses”. According to the Education Department, 2.7 million K-12 students were suspended at least once during the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which data is available.
Liliana Gonzalez • Feb 14, 2020 at 9:18 am
Ms. Genge – It’s insane to know that 415 students got suspended in a year. We have a high rate of students suspended than other high schools because on average other high school suspension rates are 7.6% to 9.6% while our suspension rate is 11.6%. What are the big reasons for students getting suspended?
Diego Sazo • Feb 14, 2020 at 9:17 am
Genge – I am shocked that the suspension rates at our school are so high. The average suspension rate in the country is 7.6% for high school students. This means that that this school has a 4% higher rate than the national average. However, I do not believe that suspension rates are important in assessing the students at a school, as different schools will give out suspensions more or less frequently. I hope that our school sees the national trend of lowering suspension rates.
Leonardo Castillo Alba • Feb 14, 2020 at 7:25 am
Genge, I personally can’t imagine how it would be like if I ever got suspended. I would be in a total panic mode and I will be scared to face my family to hear the news. But knowing that there is a 11.6% of students that got suspended and a total of them are 415. It’s crazy to even think about it. My only question is what they have done in order to get suspended? Was it like a fight or cheating on a big test or something else? Hopefully the students who got suspended have learned their lesson when they got suspended.
Moises Avila • Feb 14, 2020 at 7:23 am
Genge – From my research, the percentage of suspensions around the United States have decreased throughout the years. Between the years 2012 and 2016, the proportion of every student that was suspended at least once during the year fell from 5.6 percent to 4.7 percent. Although, race is a major factor that contributes to the percentage of suspensions. According to my research, Black high school students have a 12.8 percent chance of being suspended compared to Hispanic high school students who have a 6.3 percent and White high school students who have a 6.1 percent.
Oscar Boleres • Feb 14, 2020 at 7:17 am
Genge- Does this suspension rate include other schools outside of Morton? Does your number of suspended students include morton west, because I did some light research and I found that 954 students at morton had been suspended.
Anthony Alvarado • Feb 14, 2020 at 7:12 am
Genge – It’s surprising to learn about the percentage of suspension rates among our school being 11.6% during 2018-2019. Especially since last year in the USA as a whole, there was supposedly a decrease in the amount of suspension rates in high schools from 9.6% to 7.6%. Maybe our school has more trouble controlling them than others?
Julissa Carreno • Feb 14, 2020 at 7:11 am
Genge- I am shocked to see the number of students who were suspended this past school year. However, after doing some research, it turns out that among high school students, the percentage of students suspended fell from 9.6 to 7.6 percent. Moreover, suspension rates have fallen all over the country. Therefore, even though it’s bad to see how many students have been suspended in Illinois, there is hope that as the years progress, that percentage will drop down even lower.