Public schooling is essentially one giant cerebral hemorrhage that deprives your brain of anything useful and kills your spirit. DROP OUT!

But what will I do instead of school?
Before discussing what to do besides school, one must acknowledge that almost anything is better than wasting time in an oppressive educational establishment. With all your time freed up by dropping out of school, you could actually contribute to meaningful projects and your own blossoming knowledge. Transform the streets, parks, and coffee shops into free spaces of critique and play. Attack those who attempt to organize your life and impose boring routines and religious spectacles onto your free time. The emptiness of leisure stems from the emptiness of life in present-day society, and it cannot be filled within the framework of that society. Ultimately, we must overthrow the social relationships and institutions that uphold this system of exploitation, boredom, and work.

And how shall I ever get a job?
Work is shit. School does nothing but prepare you to be exploited by bosses and ordered about by police, unions, and priests. Alas, we must survive somehow before the revolutionary negation of capitalism emerges from the excluded and dispossessed - but never forget that we want so much more than survival! If you really desire recognition from the State and future employers of your education, try unschooling (essentially homeschooling yourself). This is really quite nice because you get credit for doing whatever the hell you want. If you’re old enough, get your GED (the equivalent of a highschool diploma) and get on with making war on society.

I was unable to leave school. What shall I do now?
Naturally, there is nothing to do but sabotage and insurrection. Glue the locks, scrawl manifestos against alienation in spraypaint and ink, verbally attack the reactionary imbeciles feeding you lies, put pies in the faces of the administration, organize your peers and strike, make fools of the pseudo-bureaucratic student government. One never really contests an organization of existence without contesting all of that organization's forms of language. Expect repression from educational authorities and defenders of bourgeois morality but never fear it. If you are going to get dragged off in handcuffs, get dragged off screaming...

Students are despicable and useless.
The spontaneous uprising against school, morality, wage-labor, and the rest of this vile system approaches. There will be no student liberation. Liberation can only be found in the rejection of the role of student and all other forms of mental slavery. There is no time for endless meetings, textbooks, or lectures. We urge you to have great sex, burn down the prisons, and make impassioned insurrection NOW!

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