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And because I am happy, & dance & sing. They think they have done me no injury... William Blake

Anyone who is or was in High School knows that it is an important introduction to the unfairness and struggle of the public versus the government. The only difference between the authorities in High School and the Government is that the ones in High School screw you over more obviously.

Just like in the real, post 9/11 world, freedoms are being taken away in the post-Columbine world of High School. Too many times have I seen the unfortunate victims of cruel and clever bullies punished by the authorities after they try to stand up for themselves by verbal or physical means. Many of the authors know from personal experience that this can create a personal hell for students afraid to stand up for themselves. You too can learn and taught myself how to fight back and survive just like Abbie Hoffman did during the Vietnam War era, only his opponent was the government. As security tightens it makes High School life even harder and more unfair; why should the most high school students have to suffer because of the bad decisions of a few deranged peers?

Nowadays, if you want to survive in High School, it is important that you take advantage of every resource you have and make sure you support your brothers and sisters out there. You never know when something you do that may seem insignificant saves the life or sanity of someone down on their luck. Also, enjoy the pointers in this section on getting beer and other illegal commodities, as they are in here for fun and your enjoyment.

High school is just a continuation of the school system that most westerners have experienced from kindergarten on for the last several generations. The main intent is to create a properly balanced output of workers, geniuses, artists, managers, and yes, even burnouts, to take on jobs in every level of the world. Since an orderly economy can't survive on excessive art, genius, and radicalism, expect to be punished for encouraging too many people to dedicate themselves. This CorpGov economy needs dropouts, burnouts, and slaves to work in the fast-food industry.

Contents 1 Parental Issues 1.1 The Real Deal on Emancipation of Minors 1.2 Gulag Schools 1.3 Sample Plan For Leaving Home 2 High School Alternatives 2.1 Alternative Graduation 2.2 GED 2.3 Post-Secondary Enrollment Option 3 High School Life 3.1 Homework/Classwork 3.2 Sports 3.3 Student Government 3.4 Computers and Software 3.5 Cheating 3.6 Forgery 3.6.1 First Method 3.6.2 Second Method 3.7 Friends 3.8 Acting Nice 3.9 Teachers 3.9.1 Blackmail 3.10 Protest Movement 3.10.1 Leadership 3.10.2 Targets 3.10.2.1 Printing 3.10.2.2 Cameras 3.10.2.3 Camera Finder 3.11 Called Into the Principal 3.11.1 Lying 3.12 School Paper 3.13 The Cafeteria 4 Beer and Liquor 4.1 Parties and the Pigs 4.2 Fake ID 5 Drugs 6 Depression 6.1 Suicide

[edit] Parental Issues

Understand that while you are a thinking human, under the US system of law you have legal rights similar to a slave. You are property of your parents until you are emancipated by a court or you reach eighteen years of age. Too young to take a nude picture of yourself with your own camera phone or engage in consensual sexual relations with someone your own age as you are below the age of consent yet you are old enough to be tried in adult court for child pornography or as a rapist and placed in adult prison and on sex offender lists for life for those very acts in order to 'protect the children'.

Some people are cool with thier parents and stay with them into thier 20s (and sometimes beyond). Some are itching to be rid of parental shackles at age 15! Parents (like any people) range from downright cool to outright abusive to all points between. Some parents listen better than others while some are trapped in well-meaning but old thinking. Be aware that most of the time honest, non-yelling, mature talk with well researched facts can sway the more reasonable ones and can they be made into allies in your struggles. For those with highly unreasonable or ones who are dead set against you for reasons real or imagined, we will discuss some of the common issues that can come up.

[edit] The Real Deal on Emancipation of Minors

Sometimes it is best to be patient and bide time. But, what if the need to leave parents is very dire?

There are ways to get out from parental control, but significant obstacles may have to be overcome. The older the minor is, the better options the minor has.

• Getting Married as a real or sham marriage. Marriage means automatic emancipation. However, as of 2010, All states except Mississippi (21) and Nebraska (19) require 18 years of age or older to get married. Most states also allow folks as young as 15 or 16 to get married with parental consent although some require a judge's approval as well. There are a few states like Georgia, New Jersey, and North Carolina that let you get around parental approval if the girl is pregnant or has given birth.

However, marriage comes with its own issues. Few colleges have married housing. Most very young marriages do not last very long due to limited money. If a child is involved, all the more troubles.

• Enlistement in the Military. The Empire will allow you in some cases to join earlier at age 17 with a GED.

• Proven self-sufficiency with approval of a court. This can be hard to do due to lack of opportunities, we know several people who have taken this route, but it really helps to have parental approval.

For cases of abuse or younger teens, social services and the court system are far more likely to push for foster care.

It can help to talk to a knowledgeable lawyer who specializes in Family Law if emancipation is being seriously considered as the law changes drastically from one area to another.

[edit] Gulag Schools

If they have quite a bit of extra cash, Parents can send their unruly kids to prison. Most of the time this occurs when you have run-away several times, are getting into drugs a bit more than they would like, or have had run-ins with juvie. If you have ever heard of the term tough love or reform school you will already know part of what a for profit "gulag school" is. Parents at their wits end will search out almost any promise of a solution to "repair" their broken or "mentally unadjusted" child. Some parents turn to psychoactive drugs like Ritalin or antidepressants. The reform school or boot camp is arguably worse leading to a potential lifetime of damage and depression and almost never the return to "normal behavior" that is promised by the salespeople. Some of these programs take a minor outside of the borders of the United States to places where they have no recognized human rights. Many staff members were abused in similar schools and as we know the abused often go on to abuse. See: http://teenliberty.org for more information

How to avoid imprisonment or escape if abducted by a "boot camp" or gulag capture/escort team:

• If taken to any public place like an airport or parking area scream RAPE!! this will get attention and people might help, make all the noise you can and beg for the police, and straighten the facts out later. Buy yourself time and demand to see a lawyer once the police have you. It is correct to use full force and violence especially if you are being taken by surprise to escape, but expect the thugs to know basic hand to hand combat as well.

• File for emancipation, contact a lawyer from the lawyer’s guild that can help you get out of your parents custody. If you are under threat to be disappeared to one of these POW schools it is your responsibility to take custody of yourself and out of the hands of dangerous or ignorant parents. If you must, go get a job to pay for the lawyer.

• Don't call the cops in efforts to claim a threat of kidnapping. They'll gladly drag you off to a gulag school or psychiatric hospital for being a problem child.

• Stay vigilant once this threat is placed onto the table and immediately put a plan into action to seek sanctuary with someone who is not involved with and who will not inform your parents. Most adults over 25-30 including parents of your friends will buckle and turn you in once a manhunt begins and police alerts go out. Ask your lawyer for advice, but even they might turn you in. Contact county and state child welfare offices they may not always be sympathetic but at least force them to take and file a statement, memorize the case number. If you make a big stink when you find out most schools advise parents to delay enrollment to catch you off guard.

• Have an escape plan in place if your parents decide in the end to send you away, most snatch operations are done in between midnight and six AM when the victim student is expected to be asleep. People are most compliant to capture at this time because their brain is sleepy and moving slow. Know where every exit is (windows, doors, crawl spaces, attics, etc) and have plans to avoid your captors and their handcuffs. Remember that while you parents might be advised to use the child safe(opens from outside only) locks on the back doors, try to work yourself into the front seat if they are picking you up and taking you away, you can make a run at a stoplight, worst case roll down the window and bolt.

Expect most of these prison camps to be in wilderness areas, with some stashed water and warm clothing survival and evasion are very possible, see S.E.R.E. and Get the Hell Out of Dodge for some ideas. Consult a free lawyer, you might even claim asylum outside of the United States under the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_cat39.htm

• Consider carrying some urban, wilderness, and road survival gear in your pack and keep it with you so you can run at any time (as long as this will not alert your parents to your plans), have a trusted friend keep a backup or stash one near your home, see Caching. Sleep in durable dark colored pajamas, always put your next day’s clothes into your pack, and keep quick sturdy shoes next to your bed.

These prison schools are often for profit or religious operations and much like they use pressure on the prisoners/students they also lever against the parents to do the "right thing" and enroll or return their escaped child into the hands of the mercenary prison-school guards. Your parents must know that they have a right to see and remove you from the school at ANY time. Have trusted friends keep copies of a list of code words to give to your parents so you can get codes in letters past school censors if things get really bad. Your parents can go to local law enforcement (where the school is) and demand that they release you if the school will not let you go; your birth certificate is a parent’s proof of ownership (like a child could be owned) for purposes of release.

Some institutions employ cameras and microphones almost everywhere as well as restricting all privacy by keeping staff guards in every room. In the paranoid environments students are often required, at risk of punishment, to report dissidents or planned escapes or themselves be punished. Use of discreet hand signals or tap code S.E.R.E.#Tap Code might let you secretly communicate in an environment where you are not allowed normal interaction with other students.

[edit] Sample Plan For Leaving Home

Before you decide to walk out or not realize that this is a very serious decision, review The Street to see the dangers of jumping out unprepared.

It is best to wait till you are at least 17 to start implementing something like this as otherwise you may encounter significant obstacles.

You have decided to bail, what is your motivation for making it only a week away and then returning? If it is leverage against the folks be prepared for it to backfire. If you want to take control and are ready to have to face the courts to defend it do the following (may vary from state to state) Be aware also, that planning of this nature takes discipline and follow-through:

While still at parent's house...

• If you must... get some form of income. Whether a throw-away part time job, some gig, or bartering/selling services, money is always very helpful.
• Go the GED office of your community college and sign up for the test right now!(you may have to be 18, but many states will let you at 16 under certain circumstances.)
• Pass the GED test; you will be free of High School!
• Take entrance exam (ACT or SAT) required at community college. Go ahead and get this out of the way even if you can not take the GED for some reason. If you score high enough on this, Community Colleges may pay for your tuition and sometimes even dorm! If you do not score high, do not worry. You may still be able to attend Community College. They will just put you in remedial courses. If you have made it a good ways through High School, you may have already taken this and your scores will be on your transcripts.
• Enroll for a term. Many Community Colleges have dorms that take care of the housing issue and make you get meal tickets to take care of food. Work Study is available for spending cash.
• Move out and move into your dorm!
• Keep your grades up to avoid being kicked out.
• Begin preparing your application essays and documents for several serious universities.

• Get admitted to a real college with a few credits taken care of already.
• Graduate and run away from America for 10 years or more after blowing off the student loans!!

If you fail to plan your departure well you can expect a rough entry into the real world, again please read out The Street chapter. Difficulty in finding housing alone has lead many teen break-aways to unfortunate circumstances moving in with predators who open their doors only to trap new victims or returning to abusive guardians. Do as much pre-planning as time permits, but do not let yourself remain in a dangerous or abusive situation. There are many organizations that will help a teen escape abuse but as always be ready to bail. Never accept help that involves locking you into a "secure" school or overnight dorm, your freedom is as important as your safety, sometimes these "safe" dorms are places of rape and abuse.

[edit] High School Alternatives

Can not stand it? Are you wondering how to end the nightmare of high school? Fear not, the authors of this project feel your pain. Bear in mind it may be worth staying in High School if you are one of the few who have a realistic opportunity for sports or band scholarships or valedictorian level scholarships that can place you in certain prestiguous universities that can leave you set for life. For the rest, time to move on may be in order. Prom, pep rallies, and all of the worthless pageantry is not enough to waste our time with when we can be doing better and being happier.

[edit] Alternative Graduation

Get a group of revolutionaries, raise some money, and invest in home school materials. Have your young comrades withdraw from high school and enroll in your accredited home school program, delete all the bad grades from their transcripts give them straight A's and send them to college.

One of our editors dropped out of public school at 17 without even the required credits for an 11th grader and probably below a 1.0 grade point average, they went to a church in their neighborhood which had an accredited home school program. Eight months later they had an accredited high school diploma and a 3.3 GPA. These grades were good enough to get a full ride scholarship from the state and about two thousand dollars a semester from federal Pell grants. That two thousand was refunded in cash since the state paid the tuition and fees.

[edit] GED

This is the best deal going. You may have to take classes or simply walk up and challenge the GED if you think you can pass it. Do not listen to hardcore purists who claim a GED is inferior to a high school diploma. That only is true when applying to certain very selective colleges like Harvard or Yale. 99% of the time a person with a GED and a degree from a real college will have no issues. The money and process to get a GED vary too widely from state to state to give a full listing of the process here. Go online and do research into this. You may have your choice of several different places that offer this!

[edit] Post-Secondary Enrollment Option

This is the best move you can make in High School, hands down. By enrolling in PSEO, you are breaking free in a way that satisfies both you and CorpGov, allowing you more educational freedom than you have ever had. What is PSEO? PSEO is taking university classes. Not wimpy AP or Honors classes at your CorpGov high school. This is the real deal. You can take as many classes as you like and because your high school pays for your classes, it's completely free! One of our editors was a full-time PSEO student. Not only did he learn what he wanted to because he could pick what classes he wanted, he only set foot in his High School about once or twice a month!

Of course, in some states you will encounter significant barriers to this. Believe us, CorpGov doesn't want to lose its hold on you! But if you stay strong and don't back down, and most often you will win yourself a good education.

[edit] High School Life

[edit] Homework/Classwork

A good alternative to certain class homework is to find a website that has answers to questions from your text book or assignments. One good site for A.P. US History students is this link http://college.hmco.com/history/us/bailey/american_pageant/11e/students/ace/index.html this website features quizzes with questions that match the multiple choice questions found in the study guides for the American Pageant text book, if you use it you can easily take care of the multiple choice questions and then focus on the more important parts of the study guides. If you find anymore, make sure you post them in this section for other students

Also, many math text books have a section in the back with all the answers, just not the work most teachers ask for. Make sure you use it to check you answers or for help on a question you don't understand. This can be an incredibly useful tool! There are also websites such as Hotmath http://hotmath.com that have tons of answers and even the work to get those answers. Hell, you may even learn a thing or two by accident.

[edit] Sports

Sports is the lottery for the working masses. In some places its is also a religion to sell clothes, tickets, and college enrollment. A few extremely good can get a somewhat free ride into College where they can play on TV for Academia. Extremely rarely, some can go professional and make CEO type salaries for a few years. As such, athletes can get preferential treatment. Just remember, graduation is the end of sports careers for a large majority of student athletes. If you enjoy a sport or are good at it, cool. Otherwise, do not be bullied into something you may not like or be kept from quitting if you are not getting to have fun. It is your time, regardless of what zealots may think.

Be aware that some programs in some locations are beginning to drug test participants, if such things concerns you.

[edit] Student Government

The student body is represented by the few elected class senators who have no real influence, and ruled by teachers and principals who have almost total unchecked power. The elections themselves often amount to mere popularity contests. Often the only true power they have is to take some of the drudgery of organizing fundraisers and planning student events like prom off of teachers. A possible use of this position, if you do get elected, is to discretely further your own radical agenda or use it as another feather in your cap for a scholarship. The whole high school experience trains for apathy: an important lifetime trait for a controlled and orderly society. Remember that student elections don't mean jack, and don't expect any teacher to be your friend (especcially when proposals are outright opposed by administration!). Their jobs are more important than freedom.

[edit] Computers and Software

If your school gives you a free computer to take home or even just requires you to use one provided by them for some classes beware. There was a case in 2010 that a Pennsylvania school district used custom software to take pictures of its students at home without the students or parents permission. A student was almost expelled for eating candy in his bedroom which looked like it might be drugs. The FBI is investigating the school and the students have filed a fat lawsuit, good luck to them.

Tape or a post-it over a camera lens will take care of the video but there is no good way to block the microphone. We suggest only using the school computer in safe areas and school, never trust the thing and pull the battery when you are not using it. If you have no other computer y0u could try booting from a USB or CD Linux but even this might not be safe as the spy code might be loaded into the BIOS firmware not the hard disk.

Some schools might just require installation of their own program package on your laptop for some things, again be suspicious and don't trust a machine with unknown software installed on it. We suppose this means all Windows and Apple machines then, stick with BSD or Linux and you should be fine.

[edit] Cheating

Note: Although we here at the wiki recommend doing whatever it takes to fight CorpGov, education is still our best weapon. Why bother cheating your way through free education? Use this time of your life to get some basics down. Stupid revolutionaries are easier to catch and silence than smarter ones. That said, if you lose interest enough, or just need a slightly higher grade, use these tips to your advantage.

There are many ways of cheating. Notable techniques are writing on the inside of fingers, and writing on the inside of a carefully positioned and partially drained drink container with a dark liquid such as coke or coffee or Gatorade in it. Positioning worksheets or paper with notes on them under an adjacent student's chair works well, also. It's incredibly easy to just write the answers on the desk with a pencil and erase it later. Cover it with your arm when the teachers walk by.

If you are in a math class that requires a graphing calculator, use it to your advantage! Write fake programs that contain only formulas you didn't bother to memorize if you need to show your work. You can put almost any amount of notes into a program line code like this. If you don't need to show your work, write some programs (or befriend someone who can for you). http://www.geocities.com/johnchenjohnchen offers some nifty program codes for both mathematical formulas and games. If you school requires one of the new cheat proof exam mode calculators with the exam-mode light and timer learn how to hack this mode or splice into the exam-lock light circuit.

Lots of "badasses" in school write shit on their arms. Use this to your advantage! Come up with a simple code that uses symbols seemingly completely unrelated to whatever test you have to take. This can work in almost any math class in which formulas (but with no graphing calculators are allowed) are key. Also, for foreign language classes, simple symbols that represent phonetic structures can be scrawled all over your arms or hands to jog your memory for harder vocab words. Get creative!

Morse code tapped out with pencils on desks or tiny hidden transmitters can be used to pool knowledge, but be careful if everyone gets the same answers wrong you are screwed. Getting the same wrong answers is probably the easiest way to get caught.

If you own a cell phone (unlimited texting service is preferable), texting a company called ChaCha provides you indirect access to a search engine. During a school exam, if you are unsure of the answer to a question, simply text your query in the form of "What is/how do you/what is the answer to ______" to the number 242242. Your answer will usually arrive in under a minute. Due to the fact that ChaCha gives the question to a live person who searches for the answer, your responses can vary. Be mindful to make sure your phone is concealed from the teacher's view. Obviously, you need to have your phone on silent as well.

When cheating with a phone turn off the vibrate mode and on most phones also any sound alert let the light alert you of messages, the exception is phones which can play a MP3 or WAV ringtone. On these phones you can play a high pitched "mosquito" tone, adults can't hear it but teens can, btw don't pay for it, if you search the net enough you can find them for free. Be sure to test it out on parents and be careful especially for narc students and younger female teachers who might be able to hear it as well, choose the tone frequency that you can just hear. Even many teens assume it is their ears ringing and ignore the sound as it is just on the edge of their hearing range. Electronics nerds might make morse code cheating gear beeping out questions and answers. We love the story that the mosquito tone was used in an invention to drive teens away from stores without driving off adults, the inventors teen daughter turned it around and made a covert ringtone for texting in class.

Most teachers know of all the tricks and get bored by the lameness of it all. Attempt to make friends with the teachers if they're not total assholes. It'll make them a whole lot more accepting of your alibi, but even then don't insult their intelligence.

[edit] Forgery

Need to change a bad grade on your report card? This is a useful tactical maneuver to stay out of trouble at home but should only be used once maybe twice during high school to pad a difficult semester, otherwise it will be hard to explain a nasty cumulative GPA, why you are not attending your graduation, or getting accepted to colleges at the end of senior year. There are two methods that can be used for report cards. The first method is only effective if you have paper that is similar/identical to the paper that your school prints report cards on. Width, length, thickness and quality of the paper are all characteristics that you must consider. The attentiveness of your parents is also an important factor. Non-watermarked report cards are preferable for the first method. The second method, while more effective, is also much easier to screw up. This method is recommended for report cards with watermarks. Lastly be the first to get the mail but don't be so obvious that the folks figure out what you are doing, as long as you can get past the tamper protection and get it back in the mailbox the next day you are golden.

[edit] First Method

1. Make sure your paper is clean and free of any creases. Smooth out any wrinkles or folds. Ideally, you want the paper to be smooth and unfolded.
2. Scan both sides of the paper.
3. Open the image containing the front of the report card with Paint, or any other similar program.
4. Erase your previous unwanted grade. Don’t go crazy with the eraser; be as precise as you can.
5. Find the exact font and size of the letters on the report card. Many schools seem to use Calibri. It varies from school to school. I recommend printing out just the letter and comparing it to the original to make sure it’s just right.
6. Now, you have to place the letter in the exact position of the letter you just erased. Sometimes, it’s impossible to be 100% accurate but do the best as you can.
7. Fill in any white space around the letter with the same color as the background of the report card.
8. Print. Make sure both sides are printed correctly.
9. Before giving it to your parents, you should slightly crumple the paper to make any flaws less noticeable. Don’t make a complete mess of it otherwise your parents will get suspicious or want another one.

[edit] Second Method

1. Make sure your paper is clean and free of any creases. Smooth out any wrinkles or folds.
2. Now, you need to remove the letter's ink on the paper. There are several ways of using this. I used a thumbtack and meticulously picked away the ink from the paper. You could also use very, very fine sandpaper. I recommend finding an old report card and practicing on it to see which method works best. DO NOT use water; all it will do is make the ink bleed.
3. On a program such as Word, Open Office, etc… find the exact font and size as the one on the report card. I suggest printing it out to compare and ensure it’s as identical as possible.
4. Now, this is the most important step. Again, I recommend finding an old report card to ensure that it’s right. Align the word so that when you print it, it will print on the exact spot that the previous letter was on. It might be worth considering some testing and using an electric typewriter if you can't get the printer to line up, this is dependent on you matching font and ink types.
5. We recommend slightly crumpling or folding the paper in order to hide any major flaws. It may be slightly off, but with luck and unobservant parents it will pass.

[edit] Friends

Almost everybody in high school has at least one or two good friends. By the time you get to high school, chances are you have made a good deal of friends...and it may be tough to make others.

If you're friendless in your high school, don't let your desire for friendship get the best of you. Make sure that the people you keep in touch with are not using you for their benefit. If it helps any, you will never have to see the majority of your classmates after graduation. Unless, of course, you are into those silly (and expensive) 5, 10, or 20 year reunions.

The most exciting thing to flip-out people is to simply say as little as possible to those around you. People will have no idea what you are...a depressed teen, an angst-y goth-kid, a shy person, etc, etc. This will get the attention of the fringe groups (goths/punks/skaters/stoners) who are looking for another to join their rank-and-file. If you find a group you enjoy being a part of, cool...but don't let them brainwash you.

Try to be personable and reliable. Find people you are interested in and be yourself around them. Chances are, if you are all decent people, you'll get along. Try to enlist in as many classes that offer inclusion with other grades as possible. There is nothing that can make you feel better about yourself than befriending some cooler older kids with cars. You'll ba able to do the same when you're their age, and become a positive force in someone else's life later on. Get involved in acting, speech, music, and writing classes to show others what your true opinions and abilities are. The more you show people what kind of person you are, the better someone similar will find you.

If you get in trouble and are punished by the pigs running the school it feels good and builds spirit to have a large group of students who will be willing to protest for you. Making t-shirts and banners and distributing them in large numbers to the student population can show that the administration doesn't have full support and can lower their morale. The school can make life difficult for you for this even though they can't prove you were somehow a threat to the safety and well being of the school. Make sure kids know they can make life difficult for the administration and they can defend themselves. It is important to realize that students only have limited first amendment rights in school. The administration, on the other hand, doesn't have any at all.

Beware of fair-weather friends if you are causing mischief, as many will sing like a canary once the principal gets them alone and promises they are not in trouble. Remember security culture: don't involve anyone who doesn't need to be involved. See also Security Culture and http://security.resist.ca/personal/securebooklet.pdf

Most importantly, remember that school is not the only place to have friends. If you join organizations like Food Not Bombs or the People's army, you will make new friends, and chances are they'll be more genuine than high-schoolers. Friends don't have to be your age, and friends can be just as genuine on the internet and outside of school.

[edit] Acting Nice

Nobody likes the two faced asses in this world who kiss up for advantage. Being your real self is very important but it is also useful to learn acting skills in order to exploit unenlightened adults including, your parents. If you can keep the adults around you guessing as to whether you need to be placed into a situation of increased discipline or not, your acting might be the skill that will turn the tide. Don’t throw away actions like some unrequited yard work around the house or homework to battle the possible loss of other tiny freedoms. Be careful: your acting preparation might lead you to sympathize with the other side when it is not appropriate, and you must guard against this. Basically, if you don't show off and do stupid, pointless stuff, you'll usually get away with it. And if you have to get in trouble, make sure it's something worth it and not just screwing around.

[edit] Teachers

There are many different kinds of teachers, each with different attitudes and grading methods. Every type of teacher views their students differently: some see them as friends, others as a pay check, and some view them as delinquents no matter what.

If you are lucky enough to get an idealistic new teacher, work on becoming his or her friend. This will allow you special privileges like turning in work days late and getting high grades on poorly done projects. Keep up the abuse, however, and, unless she/he is a codependent type, they will start to feel burned and used. Wouldn't you?

Teachers start out fresh and shiny but usually start to burn out after a few years, who wouldn't from the constant abuse from some students, these burnouts keep a few stars and leave the rest to sink or swim. Try to identify and avoid the worst of these teachers when planning your classes. If you fail to turn in work or fail tests they really won't care, don't expect any special effort from these teachers especially if you are an alternative type.

Don't expect teacher stereotypes to hold true for all of the time with every teacher. Like you, they are individuals. Remember your teacher is a worker and a CorpGov slave; don't make your revolution on the backs of these often broken soldiers of education. Treat them as something more than a tool or obstacle and you might gain something useful out of your time with them.

[edit] Blackmail

In the era of constant school sex scandals attention is fortunately being paid to unwanted and abusive sexual advances. Unfortunately the systems put in place to protect the victims also becomes a weapon for an under aged abuser. Don't think you can use a false and often effective charge of abuse to destroy an innocent teacher no matter how mean or cruel they are. In two or three years once you have gained more maturity (making a false charge like this would rule out any maturity) the absolute destruction of another human will start to haunt you for the rest of your life. Causing a teacher to become homeless because of unemployment and legal defense debt, go to prison, or commit suicide is an unspeakable crime. Teachers are just CorpGov slaves like most Americans and even when burned out and useless deserve better than this.

[edit] Protest Movement

Many traditional forms of protest are unavailable to the individual high school student at their place of learning. Before a mass uprising strike or walk out can be engineered the student body must be woken up. Direct action in the name of your protest front can help build this solidarity. Be sure you have a cause that is worth taking direct action for, action for the sake of anarchy only denies the serious students quality learning without bringing anyone to our cause.

Attention must be paid to what or who the enemy is and not just committing mass acts of sabotage. For example blacking out the homecoming football game or dance would turn a large part of the student body against your group, on the other hand blacking out power or disabling the heaters before final exams might be viewed with great favor by many.

[edit] Leadership

While we are mostly decentralized, there is often a need to define what the aims of your movement are and if there are concessions that you want from the administration. For organized resistance there must be both a visible leadership that can be used to rally the students, as well as a covert leadership that is hidden from the public eye just like in a POW camp. The public leadership is just a figurehead, a decoy. As we all know, the cops and administration all want to find a "ringleader" that can be eliminated to stop the distraction. This is why the public leadership must fulfill the following list:

They must be prepared for any and all administrative action against them. They are the decoy and all action will be directed against them.

They must be trusted completely and trust completely. If captured, and if the movement is strong enough, there will be an effort to oust other members. Remember: never talk! A common tactic of police is to tell you that a buddy of your talked. Don't believe it! Even if it is true (unlikely), you can deal with the person later, after you get out. Above all: DO NOT TALK!

The public leadership must be able to function on its own. There will be times when the best laid plans go awry and the two leaderships are cut off. The public leadership cannot, absolutely cannot, freeze like a deer in the headlights. Only with coordinated, concentrated, well-thought-out, organized, knowledgeable, decisive leaders will you succeed. Yes, the main body of the movement is important, but without leaders, nothing will happen. Look at the Children's Revolution of the 70's, Abbie's revolution. They didn't have an organized leadership and thus: nothing changed. Things have even gotten worse.

If any of these are unfilled, the entire movement can, and most likely will, fall apart.

The public leadership also can take care of propaganda, and other such things, freeing up the covert leadership to focus on strategy for demonstrations, protests, and other direct action. To boil it all down into a couple simple sentences: the public leadership takes care of everything public, everything that is (generally) legal, if disruptive. The covert leadership focuses on everything that is possibly illegal: flash demonstrations, protests, Black Blocs, riot planning, logistics, finance, etc.

Another good practice is to carefully test/train the covert leadership/division to be as normal as possible. If there are any discrepancies in their behavior, the police will snap them up like flies. Also, it would be a good idea for the public division not to know who the members are in the covert division, and for the covert division to not know more than a couple other people in their division. At least, until necessary. This reduces the risk of mass arrests.

However, to offset the paranoia of the last paragraph, remember this as well: Communication is the key! Without communication, everything falls apart. Simple as that and no more to say.

[edit] Targets

There are several targets to make your presence felt by the teachers and students.

• PA System- if you can wire into the punch down board and have a remote activation of the system your message can be heard any time you want, expect your modifications to the system to be disabled within a few days of your first use.

• Cable TV- If your school has the hallway closed circuit cable you can often override the signal with your own or take over the computer creating the signal.

• Utilities- Many states require operational water, sewer, electricity, and heating systems for classes to be held, knock these out for a day off.

• Keys- Many facilities have master keys which open just about everything in the school, try to lift off of janitors or principals. A clever person with some background in locksmithing can craft a master key by examining several other discarded door keys from the same building (basically an extra notch gets filed near the base of the shaft). Doing this with government locks is a felony (at least a year in jail if your caught). A related video resource available via bit torrent, is "Lockpicking for the New Millenium." See LockSmithing

• School Computer Network- Get involved with so-labeled 'nerds', and use their knowledge to hack the system. With this, you could do almost anything as far as spreading our cause. The hackers are by the hacker code of ethics anarchist. They can also get some nice technology for your cause...

[edit] Printing

Not really a take down target, more of a resource, although a well timed print order of radical content to every printer in school might be useful, although it will surely increase security making abuse more difficult.

But realy one of the easiest things to obtain for free at high schools is printing for our cause. Printers are not really watched over. So find an abandoned printer, and do with it what you will. Print hundreds of STW’s flyers, for instance.

In Internet Communications we discuss network hacking a printer from across the cube farm or across the world. Most good IT managers lock that printer network port or server like Fort Knox to unauthorized users, but did you notice any other ports on the back of the printer? You will likely see at least one of the following a USB port, a parallel port, and you might be in luck and see a little black plastic window somewhere on the front or side about half an inch, that is an IR port. Write down the printer make and model number, have the right drivers installed before you start!! Now waltz in with your laptop or PDA(that has USB) plug in and print, with IR it is even easier, from across the room beam a postscript, PDF, or text file to the printer and grab the results once it finishes.

[edit] Cameras

Cameras seem to be everywhere today. It would be nice to take a few out and allow free action zones to our movement. Since walking up and smashing or even lasing a camera directly will leave your face or at least body type and gait on the tape you will need to be more sneaky. You will need a truly high power laser like the kind inside a HD or BlueRay DVD burner and a proper collimator to focus the beam without spread. Get some laser protective film that blocks the frequency of your laser and get ready to destroy. Have someone in gloves(fingerprints) stick a mirror opposite the hallway from the camera in an unmonitored area during a high traffic time. After the mirror is up someone comes by and wearing laser safety filmed sunglasses or lab goggles and using the old bounce shot fries the cameraBe careful, this can blind you instantly. Go after one that you know is monitored in a place you can access so you can do some post strike recon and see if it worked. Failing the laser a stickpin through the coax cable or just cutting the wires will take the camera out for a short time. Make it very expensive for the principal to play 1984 at your school, but keep that damn laser well disguised and don't talk about your delightful work lest your dumbass classmates nark you out, there will be a police investigation if you get too effective.

[edit] Camera Finder

With the popularity and low price of tiny pinhole cameras it is useful to know how to spot them. Darkness is a big help as even a small light can be used although this technique also works in lit rooms if you have a bright flashlight. Using your directional light held next to your your head slowly scan the whole room especially dark corners, hung ceilings, smoke alarms, and electrical appliances like clocks. It will be very difficult to scan a large room properly. A camera will appear to be a reflective dot, often colored, that shows even when you move your head, investigate to eliminate false positives. Taping a toilet paper tube to a flashlight to use as a sight will help remind you to keep your head near the light. you will be noticed scanning for the bug, but tapes are usually saved only for a few weeks and are rarely reviewed, strike the known camera only after a good wait but realize that the cameras destruction will call extra attention to that area for a long time, an object blocking the cam might be smarter.

[edit] Called Into the Principal

Our activities will likely land us in the principals interrogation chamber, the purpose of a school is order and indoctrination, no matter how liberal the staff they are also trained to maintain that order.

What to do when you get called out of class:

You will want to prepare a good argument in advance and carry a tape or digital recorder with you to record the conversation just incase the principal says something fascist so you can use it against him later. You may also want to bring something down for moral support, when I got called down I brought my copy of Orwell's 1984 to remind me why I stand up for what I believe in.

When talking to your principal or assistant principal during a call in be sure of a few things:

• Match their mood, if they're polite, be polite, if they act like an asshole act like an asshole right back, if they give you respect, give them respect. Normally they have some training to keep their cool in a situation like this, but if they don't egg them on in a smart way, especially if you have a tape recorder running. If they do keep it cool it does you no good to make a scene in their office.

• Keep your cool, before you go in have in mind what you want to say. This will give you some preparation; ask to use the bathroom to buy time if needed. Also be careful, most administrators will try to throw you off balance during the conversation. Keep in mind what you're down there for and remember that you believe in what you're doing.

• Don't back down; stand up for what you believe in.

[edit] Lying

Be smart about lying, it is much safer to play dumb. The problem about lying is you have to remember the whole story, every-single-detail for as long as you might ever be asked again. Again details are bad, when in doubt say you forgot. Principals are amateurs, cops sometimes do better, detectives and feds have real experience but if you remember a few rules and stay cool you can survive.

• Relax as much as possible, take several deep breaths before entering the room if nobody is watching, adopt an open posture, you own the room.

• Liars shift their eyes differently when lying or remembering, look at the questioners eyebrows never the eyes, this reduces shifting, avoid excessive blinking or closing your eyes when answering.

• Distract yourself, this helps reduce unwanted facial expressions and hand motions, maybe think about your partner undressing all sexy for you or favorite songs.

• Don't move your hands, keep them open on your lap or armrests, liars like touch their face

• Find a sitting position that is comfortable and keep it, never change position as you answer a question.

• If you can pull it off act a bit cocky, maybe indignant, and in control as though you are expecting to be released since you are innocent.

• If you have time, think about probable questions as you are being lead in.

• Never volunteer details, claim ignorance of times or timed events(TV shows etc)as much as possible

• Be as general as you can in your answers, let an inexperienced interrogator fill in the details they want if you can get away with it.

• Above all convince yourself you are telling the truth if you can lie to yourself well enough you will not throw off the indicators.

• Accept the fact that a principal can give arbitrary punishment often without any appeal other than a lawsuit, accept this and do not expect a fair hearing.

If a polygraph or so called lie detector is used know that this is an act of intimidation and desperation, modern interrogators are better at face reading than the very unreliable results of a polygraph, it is there to scare you into confessing or the 'unstoppable' machine will catch you. Demand to take the lie detector, use it as your own intimidation device.

[edit] School Paper

Most high school papers are rags barely worthy of wiping with, since the censor oversight prevents discussion of any serious topic. The most serious topic is prom decorations and football scores. It is still often possible for an impassioned writer to be allowed an occasional editorial article so take a chance, make the most of your opportunity proof and have your piece reviewed before submitting it.

Another option is to form a activist club of some sort. With the current white liberal political correctness movement minority and environmentalist target clubs will be given much greater freedom of speech from the administration for fear of bad press. What’s the benefit to accepting occasional administration oversight and a teacher advisory? You will normally receive a small media budget including printing access as well as possibly even time off from class and school assembly address time or PA system access for your message. There is no reason your underground can't have a "legit" public front like this, as you divert some resources to your underground movement.

[edit] The Cafeteria

School cafeterias are some of the easiest places to rip off. While in line waiting to pay, many people eat some of their food. If you eat most of your food, you pay substantially less money. You can even wait until nobody is looking and just walk to your seat. Simple things like these can save you thousands of dollars a year. Keep in mind when you steal from high school cafeterias that lunch ladies are not hired for their intelligence so sometimes grabbing some extra food when you buy a lunch and the cashier may not even notice it on your tray. If you want to be more careful simply stuff it in a pocket/purse or hold it at your side out of view and it might go unnoticed (this works a lot better than you would think.), or simply hide smaller items beneath a packet of crisps or something. This is zero-risk, as long as you can afford everything you're stealing, because it is not obvious you are trying to steal at all. (Zero-risk is an understatement, I tried this, one of the lunch ladies saw me, I didn't see anyone looking, but she barely knew English so I was lucky, keep an eye out, no kind of stealing is 0 risk.)

In some cafeterias there is an 'in' and an 'out' line. You walk in one, past the counter and back the other way to pay. It’s super easy to jack from these. Just walk up, calmly take your pick, and walk out the way you came. This is best done when it is crowded and busy so that you can be easily lost in the crowd if you happen to be spotted.

If you have a sweet tooth and your school has a separate booth for junk food and other random food items ask for an item that requires the cashier to turn his/her back and stuff you pockets with as much food as possible while their back is turned. Often the food line or bar will go unattended for brief periods during which you can simply go up and grab a few items. If you want a free drink wait until the cashier is busy and go up and grab a milk and tell her you forgot to grab yours with your lunch. Normally she will just let you go since she is preoccupied with paying customers. Keep in mind, however, that this cannot be done too often.

If you are ever caught by a lunch lady, it is important that you are apologetic so that you do not attract the attention of any nearby teachers and you may be able to get off with a warning. If you are unfortunate enough to have the lunch lady demand your name you can simply give her a fake name assuming there are no witnesses around that will bust you later; if you cannot risk giving her a fake name, don't sweat it, the normal punishment for food thieves at high school lunches is a slap on the wrist and you may be required to write an apology to the lunch ladies. If this is the case, have fun writing a ridiculous and overly dramatic letter and go back to stealing when you feel comfortable with it again.

Another way to get free food that is fun is to save up enough pennies for a lunch and get at the head of a busy lunch line. When you get to the cashier, pull out the pennies in a bag and begin to slowly count them out. If you're lucky, and slow enough, the kid immediately behind you will freak out and may insist on paying for your lunch. This is also a good way to cause chaos in the lunch room if you can get a group of people to do it at every line.

[edit] Beer and Liquor

Ah yes, the Amerikan way of life! Old enough to pilot a 3 ton car, yet too young to drink! While the Vietnam War brought many drinking ages down from 21 to 18 or 19, the neo-fascists (who were in bed with Motherfuckers Against Drunk Driving) raised it back up in the mid 80's, citing an increase in anti-social behavior and DUI's. Today, it is illegal in all 50 states in Amerika to purchase or have in your possession any alcohol intended for oral consumption if you are under 21.

[edit] Parties and the Pigs

If you are planning a party of some sort do it at a safe location far enough away from neighbors that the police will not likely be called, make a no drive away, stay the night plan part of the deal and have enugh beds or sleeping bags then there will be much less danger of drunk driving.

Keep in mind that in some states (and Canadian provinces), such as Arizona, it is legal to drink at home under adult consent, such as for religious reasons. If your "parent" is cool, use them to assist your acquisition of alcohol... legally! What the average person fails to realize is that most states have NO laws regarding being drunk in private! Yes, you and your 5 year old brother can be sloppy drunk in most states in a private house or establishment and the pigs can't do a thing unless they see you hold a container of alcohol!

Now a quick word on the pigs: Usually, most don't really care about underage drinking. They don't go out looking for it like they do with marijuana or meth etc. Furthermore, unless you are drinking in a car or drinking outside (a punishable offense regardless of age in most states) or attending a loud party where pigs are dispatched to, your chances of being busted are somewhere around zero. If a beer run goes bad with a fake ID, they will not call the pigs on you. If the clerk is an undercover pig (very rare), they would have to come across a desk to nab you.

If the Amerikan jackboot pigs ever bust down the door during a party and starts asking for your papers, don't sweat it. If you can access a bathroom before they see you, go to it, lock the door and turn on the shower. They're not likely to bust down the door to get an underage kid if there's a chance a naked tax-paying citizen is taking a shower. If you can't access a lavatory, this is OK, too. Make sure all cups are away from you, hide your wallet under the couch, and when the thug gets to you, empty your pockets and say "I didn't bring my ID with me". They might ask you a couple of questions, but remember, they can't do anything to you in most states unless you were holding alcohol can you get a MIP, Minor in Posession, and it's usually not worth it to them to send a 17 year old drinker downtown if they have don't have any proof of age. Also be aware that the pigs will often tell you that they saw you drinking. What most kids don't realize is that cops are legally able to lie to you to make you confess. Keep denying that you were drinking or holding alcoholic drinks(even if you were), and, if you actually weren't, tell them you know they can lie to you, and that you've lost respect for them because of this. They can't do anything about that, now can they?

[edit] Fake ID

(proposed merge with Underground-->Fake IDs with link on this page.)

Now, of course any young man or woman can steal Daddy's bottle of peppermint schnapps, but it takes real thought to have an unlimited source of booze.

While the fake ID is becoming less and less common due to the Government's cracking down on immigration and terrorism, all is not lost. A high-quality fake ID can still be found; just ask around on internet message boards. A good ID with a real state hologram will usually run from $100-$200. The number one thing to remember is to play the age. Memorize the fake ID's birthday, zodiac address, and other important information. Wear somewhat decent clothing. Actually, many fake ID dealers will customize them, putting your own name, birthday (obviously not the year) and more on.

When looking for a store to use a fake ID/no ID in Amerika, avoid nice looking or chain stores. Chain stores tend to train their employees much more for spotting underage purchasers. It's much better to hit up Jimbob's Corner Store and pay an extra $1.50 for a six-pack than to lose a fake ID at Wal-Fart.

A good idea is to see if you have any older friends, or buddies with older brothers, who look like you. Stick to the memorization bit and, if it's a close enough match, you're fine.

Also, while it may suck, do not attempt to buy underage in liquor stores in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Utah, Washington State, or Oregon. All hard alcohol in those places is sold in CorpGov-run liquor stores...the whole point of that being that when profits are taken out of the equation there is little incentive in selling to young'uns. These places are also equipped with ID scanners, black lights, and knowledgeable staff. In all of these states, however, you can buy beer and low alcohol wine in corner stores.

Just remember not to drink and drive/boat/bicycle, unless you want to be president some day. for some help with DIY brewing see Strange Brewing

[edit] Drugs

See Free Dope for a look at drugs, more realistic than what they teach in the school assemblies and health classes. Remember that if you are depressed, in danger, or homeless drugs are not the answer but can make your situation much worse.

If you are experimenting for the first time:

• Try with someone close to you who also has some drug experience
• Be in a safe comfortable location
• Be in a good mood without any worries hanging over you.

In high school you brain is still growing, don't do the hard drugs they can really fuck you up and leave you in the gutter or prison, stick to grass and shrooms, even acid and especially ecstasy should be taken in the smallest doses until you figure them out. It goes without saying that Ritalin and Adderal are counted in the hard drugs to avoid.

[edit] Depression

High school is full of the social climbing and crushing competition games that will follow many people for the rest of their lives if they choose to follow the CorpGov blue/white collar model. Most high-schoolers reading this book are likely grouped into the loser class for being a little too intellectual or withdrawn. Fuck those stuck up assholes. Get tight with your real friends and walk down the halls of your school with pride; you are on average a standard deviation in IQ higher than the average stuck up homecoming slut-queen or faux-rebel party boy. The world will move under you while those who seem to be all powerful now will live a life of store clerking or tire salesman. Meditate, learn to breathe, exercise, and find a task that you do well. Music is another major therapy source. Never let some 12-step fool or counselor make you believe you are crazy, an addict, or worthless. Lie to them if you must. You control your own life; that is the way it must be and will be.

[edit] Suicide

In the past few years, high-school suicide rates have gone up dramatically. The CorpGov media will not touch the subject and little is being done to combat it.

Remember, the hardest and most rewarding task of your life is working through and surviving the hardest situations, and then coping and learning from it to become a better person. It is worth it. If you are reading this, you understand that our lives are the most valuable thing we have. Although nothing may make sense during times of turmoil or injustice you must understand that you only have one shot to survive, and that suicide is not an answer but an end. Your life is valuable to yourself, your friends, your society, your people, and to us. All the experience this wiki is based upon came from people who have gone through enough hardship to know how to beat the system. Even the realization of CorpGov's dystopian dream should never make you think of taking your life.

Realize that violence toward teachers or peers is no solution. They may seem ignorant and occasionally cruel but they are fed their credit card elite programming by the CorpGov TV and movies, they may not understand the context of the world they live in, and they are worthy of pity and not rage.

If ever you are made to feel worthless, ugly, or unworthy of something, understand that with self-confidence and determination, you can achieve your personal goals and may influence your peers to your beliefs. Also, understand that belief can change from culture to culture and society to society. If you are made to insulted, degraded, or otherwise made to feel bad about yourself, you should understand why you are taking the criticism to heart. Do you respect the society you live in? Do you respect it more than yourself and your ideals? Personal attacks are intended to belittle you in the public eye, to establish a pecking order, and they are the basis of politics and business. If you are offended, join the anti-CorpGov resistance and help other people realize how much they are worth!

If you need someone to talk to, get on the phone, call the operator and ask for a suicide prevention service.