muck up day

[milkybarkid]

hi this is a bit of a legal question but it's about school. every year at my school just before year 11 is about to go off on study leave they all trash and cause mayhem in the school- muck up day. the general rule is that they are allowed to cause distraction but not distruction. now it's my years turn and one of the ideas was to spray paint "year 11 woz here" on the grass. i don't think that counts as distruction as school can easily just mow the lawn and it will go away, however a few years ago someone was kicked out because they took some computer mice. i don't want to get in trouble a week before my gcses. can i get away with this?

[Hermia]

I wouldn't risk it if I were you. At my school we were also allowed to go mad on the last day, but our bags were searched for dangerous items. Spray paints would certainly have been confiscated. I think a school could still view this as damage to property and having an aerosol could also be dodgy.

[pagey]

A friend at my school sprayed a water pistol at the headmaster in final assembly. He didn't really care though.

The whole sixth form also barrackaded ourselves in our common room.

Oh, and we broke mercury thermometers to play with the mercury, blow up capacitors in DT, had a paint fight in art etc. Don't even get me started on the end-of-year school trips!

[jonskinner28]

we barracaded the front entrance to the school with sofas and charged teachers to enter the school threatening them with water pistols as they drove in. we then gave the money to charity.

[BlueHeaven]

milkybarkid,

Using spraypaint on someone else's property IS illegal regardless of how easy it would be for them to get rid of it, and the school field is the school's property, not yours. I know someone who got charged with Criminal Damage by the police for the tiniest bit of graffiti where they had only used a washable marker on a wall! So....I wouldn't recommend it, if you want to do your GCSEs (good luck with them by the way)

[marko1234]

thanks for the ideas with the barrackade, iv only got a week before year 13 SL to think of every possible thing i can do to the school, putting some sort of fish behind the white boards is a good idea, theyll never find them, and the smell is awful after a hot summer

Good Luck to everyone in their exams btw, itll be worth it in august, well hopefully