Liberate your life - smash your school! The public schools are slowly

killing every kid in them, stifling their creativity and individuality
making them into non-persons. If you are a victim of this one of the things
you can do is 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 helplessly waiting while the
schools destroy more and more mind seach day. It is written for young
people who realize that because theyare trapped in school they don't have
a chance to learn what they need toknow 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
editions.(YIP address is same as Overthrow mag. in general section
-sysop II)

        WHAT YOU CAN DO
1. Get a syringe [minus needle] or similar device. Mix both tubes of
epoxy glue with 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 as 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 to 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 attendance.
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 attendence].
7. Start an information service to let new students opinions and warnings
about the teachers and administrators before enrollment day.
8. Bad food? Have a good old fashioned food riot.
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 example 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
confirmed or denied.
14. Perform citizen's arrests of administrators for destroying the
minds of youth 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-filter cigarette in
a book of matches so that it touches the head of some matches and will
ignite them when it burns down that far. Then loosly crumple paper around
the matches and cigarettes so that they are hidden. Toss it in a
wastebasket or any other area with a lot of papers preferrably in the
office. It takes 5 minutes to ignite- by then you can be on the other side
of the building. Practice this at home before trying it.
19. Have giant coughing or sneezing epidemics in class or study hall.
                
20. Rub lipstick -glue -vaseline -or anything onto the doorknobs of the
school's administrative offices.
21. Swallow some snake bite antidote then walk into the principal's office.
The antidote [most types are harmless - make sure you get that kind] will

make you vomit. Do so all over his carpet -desk -clothing -etc. then
apologize profusely.
22. Pick up some dog training liquid at any pet store - it smells like

concentrated piss. And if you can't figure out what to do with that then
you shouldn't be reading this.
23. Remove contents of teacher's mailboxes. Print up everything that's
confidential or interesting.
24. Leave notes and hints that 'Tuesday's the day'.
25. Impersonate parental voices and make irrate phone calls to the office.
26. Make a super stink bomb out of Hydrogen Sulfide and put somewhere in
the ventilating system. This has cleared school buildings for days.
27. If your school has a suspended ceiling[that is a ceiling composed of
rectangles or squares resting on a frame so that the rectangles can be
pushed up] you can put a dead fish -or anything else -above them. Or put it
into empty lockers and glue them shut.
28. Put signs on your locker saying 'this locker will self-destruct if
opened for inspection'.
29. Give your school library a subscription to a good underground
newspaper from your area and insistthat they make it available to
students.
30. Print up false notices frequently using the same format as the school
uses and distribute them to the teachers' mailboxes. Eventually
they'll never know what to believe.
31. Make your own passes -forms -tickets -etc. -or lift them out of
teachers' desks.
32. Need a signature? Collect things that have teachers' signatures on
them. Paste them all down on a sheet of white paper and either xerox or

print up a bunch of copies. Forge when useful.[When getting started you might
put a piece of carbon paper under the signature with the carbon paper facing
down on what you want signed. Then trace over the name with a steady
relaxed hand. Practice makes perfect.]
33. Do some revolutionary wall painting. All you need is a can of
spray paint [red?] plus a little imagination and courage. Then write
your favorite slogans on walls -sidewalks -blackboards -etc. If you
are a perfectionist you can make a stencil -but that limits the size of
what you can do. WEAR GLOVES or you will certainly get tell-tale paint on
your spraying finger.
34. Are certain teachers or adminis- trators misbehaving? Print up a rat
sheet with their names and telephone numbers and distribute it. Now
students can call up at any time and reprimand them - 3.00 A.M. for
example. Also you could order them pizzas -plumbers -think big!
35. Break into your school at night and burn it down. To get inside you can
either hide in the building during the day and wait until the janitor leaves
[know in advance what time that is] -or come in later at night and either
force your way through the door -find an open window -or break a window [see
Monroe Mindfuck]. If you use the latter method do it a few hours or
days in advance so you don't get caught if it attracts attention. Be
careful not to leave fingerprints - wear gloves all the time if
possible. Once inside make sure the walls will light well by placing loose
paper or wood around them -or squirting lighter fluid -kerosene -or
gasoline onto them. If a lot of burnable boxes are stacked in one area
spread them around. Start the fire from the inside of the building so it
will take longer before it can be seen from the windows. Make sure the fire
has a way to travel from one burnable area to another. Of course you should
wear dark clothes and know exactly where you are going when you split.
36. Get hold of a film to be shown at a school assembly and splice in parts of
another movie of your own choosing before the assembly. A little imag-
ination on your part will make for an unforgettable day.
37. Clog up the drains of sinks with clay then turn on the water after
everyone leaves school.
38. Teachers often leave gradebooks -conduct sheets -and attendance
records unguarded. Take every chance to help yourself.
39. Put up posters all around the school. To make them stick permanently
use Pet evaporated milk for glue.
40. You could ice-pick tires as a warning - but make sure you have a
total enemy before you put sugar in their gastank.
41. Start wailing in the halls
42. If you can't find any skunks -let chickens loose in the school -or
pigeons.
43. Creat the 'WEB OF THREAD' in your classroom. Have everybody in your class
bring a spool of thread - with extras for people who forget. Tie your thread
onto something and pass the spools around till you run out - winding
thread around everything. [It is best to pick on one of your more dullwitted
teachers for this one]. Expalin that you did it in the name of art.
44. Carry and pretend to sell oregano rolled in papers and aspirin with the
name filed off.
45. Put Calcium Carbide [available in some parts of the country as 'Gopher-
Go', also available in some hobby and joke shops] in a gelatin capsule and
flush down a toilet or sink. Calcium Carbide reacts violently with water
-quickly producing large amounts of gas and bursting pipes -etc. as soon
as the water dissolves the capsule.
46. Ride a bicycle down a busy hall.
47. Save your book reports and essays. Give them to other students to use
next year or re-use them yourself with different teachers.
48. Play with lighting and microphone controls during 'important' assem-
blies.
49. Flush things down the toilets [preferably faculty johns] like
balloons filled with air -baseballs -M80's -huge amounts of toilet paper
-etc. Then build an ark.
50. Start a campaign to have the letter Z appear everywhere as the mark of
angry students.
51. You can short-circuit the school's wiring by taking a regular plug with a
short cord attached -connect the 2 wires with a switch between them. Plug
it in -turn the switch on -and you've blown a fuse. Turn it off -pull it out
-and try another. You don't have to use the switch -but if you don't
sometimes the current will arc and weld the plug to the socket.
52. Set up a fake school and hire away the lousy teachers - or put up notices
inviting the entire school to a going away party for a teacher who isn't
really leaving.
53. Read the school budget. Reprint and distribute a list of the stupid
expenditures.
54. Take booze to lunch in a thermos and pass it around.
55. During some important test [SAT/ACT/etc.] on each subject have
some student who is good at that subject stand up and read the correct
answers for as long as possible. When they're finished or silenced have
someone else stand up and do the same thing. The test results will be
worthless and it will have to be given over at great cost to the school.
56. Take down the American flag infront of the school and put up one of
your own. The best way to do this is to lower the flag that's already up
replace it with your flag and cut the rope about a foot below where the flag
is attached. Then tie a slip knot around the other end of the rope that
is hanging down to raise the flag. At this point there is no way your flag
can be lowered without someone climbing up the flagpole.
57. Put alarm clocks in various lockers set on 'loudest'. Set the alarm clocks
so they will go off about every 10 minutes then close and lock the
lockers.
58. Have a group of people march around the school with a flag singing the
Star Spangled Banner. If the administration tries to punish you
telephone your local radio stations and patriotic groups and complain that
your school is being run by pinkos.
59. In a class where there is a rule against chewing gum have everyone blow
a bubble at the same time one day.
60. Many schools have automatic sprinkler systems which go off
automatically when sensors in the ceiling feel too much heat. Find the
sensors and hold up a match to them.
61. Persuade the graduating class to use their senior gift money for
something useful or subversive.
62. Reprint School Stoppers Textbook in your underground paper or on a leaflet
or buy bulk copies and pass them around.
63. Demand that all equipment being stored rather than being used be made
available to students.
64. If your school won't have a teacher evaluation make up some forms and do
it yourself. Compile the result and publicize them to students -faculty
-school board -and community.
65. Use your 'free choice' book reports-term papers -etc. to read revolution-
ary literature and further the political education of you and your class.
66. Have a student lie on the ground. When a teacher comes scream 'he
jumped' and point to the roof or third floor window. Mumble 'Fred dared him'
or 'Maybe it was LSD.'
67. Make an address list of disliked adults in your school. Answer sex ads
for them - or order them a few gross items [C.O.D. of course].
68. Toss handfuls of BB's on the floors of busy halls -assemblies -graduation
ceremonies -weddings -funerals.
69. Steal cafeteria trays or plates -burn large holes in them -and turn
them into the school washer saying 'I guess the food did it'.
70. Leave phony letters of resignation from teachers or administrators on the
principal's desk.
71. Get a small group to always carry screwdrivers and slowly dismantle the
school.
72. Lots of bomb scares tend to break up the boredom especially during exams
or on beautiful days.
73. Photograph teachers and adminis- trators constantly - even without
film.
74. If you've got the nerve piss in your pants while giving an oral
report.
75. Splice into your school's intercom system [from a remote hidden spot].
Now you have your own guerilla radio station. Play on!
76. Drop large bottles of ether in science class.
77. Hang your teacher! Hang a hangman's noose from a tree - make a dummy and
hang the dummy from the noose. Pin notes on it like 'Weatherbee in '73.'
To add realism put holes in the body then let dilute ketchup trickle down.
78. Newspaper stands in buildings are usually left unguarded. Take out
papers and replace with rotten comics or papers.
79. Put a rotten apple or stale sandwich on teacher's desk.
80. If your school intercom has phones that connect into the intercom switch-
board -put a small magnet either where the cord comes out of the handset or
in the part where you hear. If the intercom just has a speaker -put the
magnet near or on one of the electrical connections of the speaker. In
either case it will short out the system. It may take weeks for them to
find the trouble.
81. Take the door of the administration offices off its hinges but leave it
standing there so that when the principal tries to open the door in
the morning it will have a slightly crushing effect.