<span>“Gibrilla explained that the teachers had told them that the rebels had attacked Mogbwemo, our home.” Hope this helps :)</span>
Well, this may be a vague explanation, but, dropping out of school makes it look like you hate school so much you drop out... and then peoples' opinions come in, and they label the dropouts as "punks" or even, sometimes, "delinquents".
the first option
because a thesis is basically a hypothesis