Boys home's during the era when the boys were adolescents during the story in the book The Outsiderswere not very good places. They were not much more than jails. The boys were incarcerated but still had to attend public school so there was the humiliation of being in the home, being without one's family, and for the Greasers it meant being away from their community and close group of friends.
This is not explained in the book, but having a brother was placed in such a home during the era gave me some insight into the lifestyle of the boys. I agree with the previous editor about the reason that it would be bad. It would be lonely and humiliating and would not have the coolness having been in jail would have had.
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