Davalos 1

Alondra Davalos
Professor Bieber
English 115 HON
12 November 2015
Progression Three Outline
Specific Purpose Statement: To inform the audience of a social issue affecting our society.
Audience: An educated audience.
Working Thesis Statement: We are witnessing a crisis where primarily minority males from low
income families are dropping out of school and winding up incarcerated.
Introduction:
I.

What can we expect of our society when we have our future leader dropping out of
schools?
Minority males are dropping out of school and ending up incarcerated.
We are witnessing a crisis where primarily minority males from low income families are

II.
III.

dropping out of school and winding up incarcerated.

Body:

I.

High numbers of young minority males who drop out of school and wind up
incarcerated.
a. One in every 10 young males high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile
detention, and that nearly one in four young clack male dropouts are

II.

incarcerated on an average day.

b. Over 80 percent of the incarcerated population is high school dropouts.
Juvenile detentions appears to be creating criminals

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a. Throwing a kid in detention often reduces the chance that he or she will
graduate high school
b. raises the chance that the youth will commit more crimes later on in life
c. Many kids who end up behind bars end up making friends with other
offenders and building "criminal capital."
The main cause of high school dropouts is ones socioeconomic background.
a. Students from low income families are 2.4 times more likely to dropout than

III.

middle-class kids, and over 10 times more likely than high income peers to
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drop out.
Our government must take action to prevent this crisis from increasing.
a. Make parents more involved in their childrens education.

Work Cited
Dillon, Sam. Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment among Dropouts The New York Times
n. pag. 8 October 2009. Web. 26 October 2015.
Plumer, Brad. Throwing children in prison turns out to be a really bad idea The Washington
Post n. pag. 15 June 2013. Web. 26 October 2015.