Considering that Elwood received a brutal beating simply for trying to break up a fight, it’s obvious that poisoning a staff member would be a serious offense—one that would inevitably lead a student to the secret graveyard. This is why the boys only ever talked about the plan to poison Earl in a hypothetical way, treating it like a fun thought experiment but nothing more. Now, though, it seems that Jaimie has actually gone through with the idea, thereby putting them all in danger, since each one of them technically helped formulate the plan. This danger seems to support Turner’s idea that unity is dangerous; being friends makes the boys happier, but it also increases the risks in situations like these.