40 ways to sabotage your school

8/13/2019 40 Ways to Sabotage Your School

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|_____________________________| Donated by: Cosmic Charlie & The Doctor

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What follows is one of the most irresponsible exercises in freespeech Ihave ever seen. It was first printed in 1968 by some high school kids inAmerica's industrial heartland and most recently (in English at any rate)in

England after the riots there in 1982. Of course I reprinted it forpurelyeducational purposes - just to show you how irresopnsible free speech canget.I take no responsibility for the actions of individuals who use thistext.

Now that we got all the bullshit out of the way here are the 40 waysI'vebeen telling you about.

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1. Put a rotten apple or stale sandwich in the teacher's desk.

2. Steal the attendance book. Add in and rub out ticks, and replaceor

just burn it. Same goes for unguarded conduct sheets or reports.Don't miss your chance.

3. Fill a syringe (minus needle) with mixed epoxy & alcohol. You nowhave

30 minutes to fill locks, etc., before the glue hardens. You can

also use cement, super glue or even bits of wood, nails, etc.

4. Another use of the syringe is to pretend to shoot up when theteacher

is watching. Explain that that you have to do it because schoolis so

horrible.


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5. Phone the school at random times. Try flood, fire or bombwarnings.

Disguise your voice and hold a handkerchief over your mouth.

6. Pretend to have food poisoning (after lunch break). Get lots ofpeople

to join in. Roll on the floor, or get sick by pushing yourfingers

down your throat. Try it in assembly. With luck you can startgeneral

panic.

7. Draw or paint slogans on roll down maps or slide screens.Obscenities

are best.

8. Hand out notices to new pupils telling them which teachers arenasty

...and why.

9. Bad food? Have a good old fashioned food riot.

10. Organize massive searches for "lost" contact lenses in gym classor in

hallways between classes. Don't let anyone walk through the hallas

they might step on it. Pretending you've lost something is a goodcover for all kinds of subversive behavior.

11. If you still have to wear uniforms, try wearing them back to frontin

protest. Dare boys & girls to wear each other's uniforms. Ifthis

doesn't work, try a blanket protest.

12. Try political games. School is 12 years brainwashing withouttrial.

Slowdowns, work to rules, strikes and occupations are fun. Butdon't

let leaders or ego trippers speak for you.

13. Get everyone to bring in all their pets to school to show theteacher.

14. Write down a list of all the stupid rubbish or rules you have tolearn

& hand it out on sports day or open day.

15. Now & then get loads of students to rush to the office to get arumor

confirmed or denied.

16. Make a citizens arrest on your worst teacher. Drag him/her infront of

the class and put him/her on trial for rotting the minds of youth.


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17. Rip off dishes and silverware from the cafeteria, office equipmentfrom

the office, paint & other art materials from the art room, lightbulbs

from the sockets, toilet paper from the jacks, etc.,etc. Donatethem

to yourselves or local anarchist group.

18. During lunch break turn on and light all gas taps in the sciencelab.

Make sure your not caught at this prank & try a good disguise.

19. Get everyone to demand to see their school records files, becauseeveryone else (police, social workers, etc.) is allowed to see

them.

20. Make a fuse by sticking a cigarette between the two rows in amatch

book. Non-filter cigarettes are good but marlboro are best 'causethey

use more nitrate to make 'em burn faster. Toss the fuse in awastebin, or anywhere with lots of burnables. The office is best.

Wait 5minutes. Call alarm yourself to avoid any "accidents." Practice

athome first.

21. Throw out the teacher and decide for yourselves what, how, why youwant

to learn. Spread the action to other classes and other schools,this

happened in Paris back in 1968.

22. Have gigantic coughing and sneezing fits in class or inassemblies.

23. Find out your teacher's and principal's addresses and go there atnight

and spray anti-school slogans on their walls.

24. Rub glue, lipstick, vaseline, or shit on the doorknobs of theofficies

of the headmasters, principals, or on the teachers' toilets.

25. Pick up some dog training liquid at a pet store (it smells likeconcentrated piss) and if you can't figure out what to do with

that then shouldn't be reading this.

26. Intercept the teacher's mail. Pass around, copy anythingconfidential

or interesting.

27. Impersonate angry parents phoning up the school. Try complainingthat

a nasty teacher has been having sex with little Johnny.


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28. Don't go to school. Sick notes are no problem to copy. Think of

better ways to spend your time.

29. Make a super stink bomb out of hydrogen-sulfide and put it in theschool's ventalation system. This has cleared schools for days.

30. If your school has suspended ceilings (that is ceilings composedof

rectangles or squares that can be pushed up) you can put dead fishor

anything else above them. Try dead fish in a disused locker andglue

up the lock.

31. When you get the staff totally neurotic and paranoid, put outnotes and

hints that "Tuesday is the day."

32. With a new teacher change names in roll call, so that he/she can

never figure out who everyone is.

33. Get your school library a subscription to anyunderground/anarchist/sex

oriented newspaper and insist that they make it availible topupils.

34. Get school note paper and type out letters to teachers firing orsuspending them. Soon they won't know what to believe.

35. Do some revolutionary wall spraying. Recipe.. Spray cans or paintand

brush, look out, a little imagination and courage. Write yourfavorite

slogan on walls, billboards, blackboards, floors, et cetera. Astencil

is nice though limits size. You'd best wear gloves or you'll gettell-

tale paint on your hands.

36. Copy and hand out a sheet with the names and house phone numbersof

teachers on it. Now people can ring up anytime if punishmentsdon't

stop. Say 3 a.m. for instance, say you're the mafia or keepsending

police, plumbers, coffins, et cetera to their house.

37. Get hold of a film to be shown at school, and splice in bits ofyour

own making, then return it unnoticed. Wizard wheezes fortechnical

wizards, like bugging the teachers toilets and hooking up theresults

to the school loudspeaker system.


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38. Clog up all drains with clay, paper, etc., then flush all toiletsand

turn on all taps. Instant swimming pool.

39. Stick up anonymous posters around the school.

40. Always carry an awl (available at any hardware store) or sharpenedscrewdrivers. Puncture teachers tires by pushing through the

sidewall(it goes through eaisly) while pretending to tie your shoelace.Practice at night on the tires of any rich dude's car. Do at least

twotires so that the spare doesn't help. For real nasties and cops,

army,and politicians, add sugar and/or sand to the gas tank. The claw

of ahammer will remove most locked gas caps, or use your awl and

hammer,tap a hole in the gas tank, light and run!

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