83 Ways to
Destroy Your School
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 you 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 s 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 preferably 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 shit 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 irritating 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 insist that 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 administrators 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
alot 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
imagination 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. Create 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 disolves 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' assemblies.
49. Flush things down the toilets (preferably
faculty johns) like baloons 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 two 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 in front 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 SchoolStoppers 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 revolutionary 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 administrators 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 switchboard,
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.
82. Place a piece of flypaper (sticky side up) on the teacher's chair. A little
imagination in writing something on the sticky side can make a very interesting teacher.
83.
A little tinkering with a wrench and you can have the water fountains spurting like Old Faithful
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