3: Jeffrey spends more time in detention than he does in class. The principal keeps his fingers crossed that Jeffrey doesn't break anything important before his 18th birthday, when he officially becomes someone else's problem.

6: Pedro goes to summer school, and gets a job as a dishwasher at night. By the fall, he's got enough money saved up to pay a coyote to bring his parents up. All three of them get jobs at the slaughterhouse. Pedro never finishes school.