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- "83 Ways to Trash Your School!!"
-
- This is from something that's vaguely related to "Yippies" <not YUPPIES as
- talked about in bulletin 4..> and "The Blacklisted News", whatever that is.
- Here we go...
-
- Liberate your life! Smash you school! The public schools are slowly
- killing every kid in them, stifling their creativity and individuality
- and making them into non-persons. If you are a victim of this, one of
- the things you can do it fight back!
- This chapter is not written for people who are not yet sure whether
- school is good or bad. It is written for students that realize the way
- that compulsory education and grades destroy the natural curiosity so
- many children feel... Who realize how the tracking system keeps the
- poor people and minorities in our society on the bottom while keeping
- the rich and powerful on the top... Who realize the danger of teaching
- complete obedience to authority and who are fed up with the racism and
- sexism in schools. It is written for students who have "gone through
- channels" trying to correct these problems and who are tired of help-
- lessly waiting while the schools destroy more and more minds each day.
- It is written for young people who realize that because they are trapped
- in school they don't have a chance to learn what they need to know to
- create a free and good life.
- Before trying any of the ideas in here, you should think about the effect
- they will have in view of the situation in your particular area. Not all
- of them will be effective at all times in all areas. If you think of
- other ideas, please send them to us so we can print them in future edi-
- tions...
-
- What you can do...
-
- 1. Get a syringe (minus the needle) or similar device. Fill both tubes
- with epoxy glue and a little rubbing alcohol. You now have about
- half an hour to fill locks, door jams, etc., before glue hardens.
- If you can't get the epoxy glue and syringe, a tube of airplane
- cement can also be used although it is not permanent.
-
- 2. An alternative use for the syringe is to pretend to shoot up while
- a teacher is watching. If they speak to you, tell them you have to
- do it because school is so horrible.
-
- 3. Call the school and leave the phone off the hook. The way some (but
- not all) phone systems work, this will tie up their phone for as long
- as yours is off the hook.
-
- 4. Protest U.S. aid to reactionary regimes abroad by defoliating plants
- around the school or by digging a bomb crater on the front lawn.
- When the ecology freaks complain, ask them where they were when the
- U.S. was doing the same thing in Indochina.
-
- 5. Draw or paste something "obscene" on pull-down wall maps or movie
- screens.
-
- 6. Get some of the punch cards that your school uses for taking attend-
- ance. Punch new holes in them either with a keypunch machine or a
- screwdriver. Then switch the cards with others wherever they are
- stored. If you can figure out the code the cards are punched by, this
- has even more possibilities. You can often be just as effective without
- actually repunching the cards by redistributing them a few days after
- you collect them (particularly when they're used for attendance).
- * Warning to all NFA students - Item #6 DOES NOT apply to you..
-
- 7. Start an infomation service to let new students voice their opinions
- and warnings about the teachers and administrators before enrollment
- day.
-
- 8. Bad food? Have a good ol' fashioned food fight!!!
-
- 9. In gym classes or in hallways between classes, have massive searches
- for "lost" contact lenses telling people not to walk through the hall
- or "you might step on it".
-
- 10. If your school still has a dress code, protest it, having everyone do
- something disruptive that does not violate the code. For exmalple, dye
- your hair green with food coloring.
-
- 11. Free all the animals in the biology classroom.
-
- 12. Write a "consumer report" on the "education" you've been consuming.
- Distribute it to parents at school functions.
-
- 13. Periodically have students go to the office to have some rumor conf-
- irmed or denied.
-
- 14. Perform citizen's arrest of administrators for destroying the minds
- of youths, then telephone the police to come and take the criminals
- into custody. (This would be an excellent guerilla theatre action.)
-
- 15. Rip off dishes and silverware from the cafeteria, towels from the
- gym, stencils and paper from the duplicating room, layout equipment
- from the art and drafting departments, tools from the wood shop, and
- light bulbs from the sockets. Give them to a needy movement group.
-
- 16. During lunch, turn on and light all the gas jets in the science labs.
-
- 17. Demand to see your school records on file. (Everyone can see them.)
-
- 18. You can make a very effective fuse by inserting a non-fil