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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT January 22, 1971 Rige 5 Guaranteed Income Ini (Continued from Rige 4) "HIGH SCHOOLS REFORM: TOWARD A STUDENT MOVEMENT" Mark Kleinians pamphlet of 1966 which SDS promptly delixcreil to high school students in various parts of the country, was a declaration of war against the public school system. He said the whole idea was to force the youth to become tools of the capitalists agriculture-busines- s complex or the capitalist war machine. To do this, he said, each student is put into a strait jacket of administrative totalitarianism called the public schools. High school is not worth the time we spend there, he charged. The principal was depicted as a resident dictator: The administrator, whose real function is nothing greater than the maintenance of the campus (a task which could be easily performed by a simple-minde- d computer), has become the lord and master of our schools, commanding unlmundcd fealty. Tlie task of the disgruntled high school student, according to Kleiinan. was to break out of this prison or disrupt it from the inside. Klciman had some specific suggestion. Students should start trash-ca- n fires, turn in false fire alarms, conduct s during class room or assembly periods, lioycott health classes teaching the dangers of drugs, demand immediate suspension of all dress and hair-styl- e regulations, use absenteeism to force the principal to concede to demands (state funds being dependent upon dailv attendance of the students!), start Freedom Schools during the lurch period to which outside speakers (such as SDS speakers from the local college) could be invited, start printing radical, underground newspapers or pamphlets to distribute among the students. Kleinian urged students to get as much support as possible and then run its more popular and articulate representatives for student body offices. (This SDS strategy had phenomenal success on the college level. SDS claimed student bodv leadership control in more than half of the major colleges and universities by 1969.) non-negotiab- non-negotiab- SDS HIGH SCHOOL "REFORM" TURNS OUT TO BE "REVOLUTION" the SDS penetration of the junior and senior high schools began to follow the Kleiinan tactics, many schools found themselves in a state of severe crisis. Principals and teachers were caught almost completely unawares. Being accustomed to dealing with individual disciplinary problems, they were almost totally unprepared to cope with the small but highly ODfTOG0!!5 le. s, sit-in- As radicalized guerrilla forces which began operating throughout their schools. The demands of the student radicals were often They would accept neither compromise nor alternatives. Carefully tutored by their the pink-face- d college counter-partagitators stood defiantly before their principals to demand impossible privileges and changes in school discipline which would tum the institution into chaotic confusion. Frantically, the majority of the princqmls looked for those demands which they considered the least damaging and quickly conceded them in an effort to demonstrate their desire to he reasonable This plummeted them down into the trap which the SDS had used so successfully to snare college administrators. For example, if a principal decided to abandon dress standards or let the students set their own standards, this incident of surrender was used as the floodgate through which a dozen other demands for student determination began to pour. If the principal conceded that smoking students would not be expelled providing they smoked off the school grounds, the issue of a students right to smoke without any restriction immediately escalated into a demand. All of a suddent principals found themselves almost completely abandoning their traditional role as educators. They found themselves in a counterrevolution. If a radical student was suspended the whole school could be suddenly disrupted with massive demonstrations in class rooms and assemblies. Stink bombs, trash-ca- n fires, false fire alarms, vandalism and other forms of harassment became the order of the day. In some cases teachers were assaulted, chairs, desks and blacklioards were destroyed, oeca- sionallv schools were burned to the gound. As disciplinary control began to collapse the schools found their situation aggravated by a sharp increase in the use of drugs and alcohol among both junior and high school youth. There was also an obvious increase in sexual promiscuity. Teachers and administrators discovered a wide circulation of hard-cor- e pornograA found radical libertinism of was phy. rising spirit spreading among the students. They seemed to be preoccupied with social and political issues. Interest in the normal school curriculum lagged. Often there was open hostility to it. As one principal put it, These young fanatics have succeeded in ruining a great school. by the American Conservative Union: Each family, of four on welfare is to be guaranteed an in- come of $1600, plus additional services like food stamps. (Professional welfare organizations are demanding a minimum of $5500)... 'The proposal will add 12 million persons in addition to the 10 million already on welfare rolls. In all, 22 million people would be receiving checks from monthly the Federal government. "The program will cost over $10 billion the first year, or $275 in taxes for the average taxpayer. ..There would be no absolutely check determine if a person needed the guaranteed annual income. One would simply sign up at the local welfare office and the Federal government would mail his monthly check to him. le The whole of our past experience with welfare and other government programs shows that we cannot expect old programs to be eliminated when a new one is added. The guaranteed annual income would simply be piled on top of most, if ' not all, existing benefits. In many cases, it would go to persons not now receiving benefits. That same past experience shows us that we can be virtually certain that the S1600 figure will steadily rise, once the concept of a guaranteed annual income has been adopted. The time to take a stand is when a vast new program such as this is about to be .established; after it comes into being, it is all but impossible to HOW THE SDS DID IT remove. and relief programs (Continued on Fbge 6) Welfare Edgar Hoover reported that the modus operand i used by the SDS was very careful Jv engineered. Writ- J. 0flaOQQOO C confection that has come along in many a . . . nutty-es- t . . . munchy-es- t year! 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