🚀 go-pugleaf

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>>> The assumption is that students
are supervised at school but wouldn't be at home.  I am not convinced this
is a real issue, but perhaps I am naive.

I am at a high school and we recently have experienced some vandalism - a
fire in the soap container in the boys' restroom that got hot enough (before
setting off alarms and getting immediate response) to melt the surrounding
tiles.  Another school in the district told us of a fire in the soap
container that got hot enough that it almost went through the walls into an
adjacent classroom.

One of my students (I am a vice principal in charge, among other things, of
discipline) told me that it probably was done by homemade napalm and gave me
a printout of an Anarchist's book - only ten pages long, but containing
explicit details on such things as napalm.  Three weeks later I picked up a
172 page (small print!) copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook (same as the
Anarchist's Handbook???) with napalm and MANY other nasty things detailed.

I am a bit puzzled as to what to make of all this.  My initial reaction - a
year ago when I first discovered kids could get this at will - was that it
was a bit like kids reading Playboy.  Titillating but unlikely to provoke
activity, and not to be concerned about.  We now have had three incidents of
fires in soap containers in two schools, and we are worried.  I am unclear as
to whether napalm (gasoline and liquid soap (not deteregent)) supplies its
own oxidizer and could account for this - but it does seem clear that kids
are probably getting recipes from the internet for destructive stuff.  Are we
pioneers in vandalism here, or are other campuses experiencing this and what
are you doing????

Thanks for any input

Kathy Crandall

The opinions expressed are my own and in no way can be considered actual
ideas.