Plainfield SD 202 board approves five student-discipline actions, several field trips and routine consent items

The Plainfield School District 202 Board of Education voted on five administrative student-discipline recommendations and approved a consent agenda of field trips, minutes and personnel items at its meeting held in open session following a closed session on personnel and student-discipline matters.

Board members accepted the district’s administrative recommendations for alternative placement or expulsion in five separate student-discipline cases. The board moved into closed session earlier in the meeting “for purposes of 1.5 personnel, 1.6 collective negotiations, and 1.9 student discipline” before returning to open session and taking the votes.

The most consequential actions were three long-term alternative placements and two expulsions. In the first case, the board accepted the recommendation that “Student A” be alternatively placed outside the district for the remainder of the 2024–25 school year and the entire 2025–26 school year, with the condition that Student A return to the Plainfield Academy TAP program upon completion. Tony Gollat made the motion; Dr. Baxter seconded. The motion passed with board members voting in favor.

In a separate motion the board approved that Student B return to their home school upon completion of an external suspension. That motion was moved by Tony Gollat and seconded by Dr. Ruhlin; it…