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Seriously, I've always wondered this and just looked it up. Not a single result. Anyone? And no, thinking of heading one doesnt count. I'm looking for an actual success/failure.

Seriously, I've always wondered this and just looked it up. Not a single result. Anyone? And no, thinking of heading one doesnt count. I'm looking for an actual success/failure.
There were several during the 60's, but I don't have any information on them. I was busy with Mr. Victor Charlie ( Viet Cong ) at the time and was just a tad distracted. :)

Well, when my High School forced our principal to resign for reasons they wouldn't tell us, the students staged a walkout. Those that didn't walk out refused to do any work. School got out 2 hours early too due to this. We never did find out why she was forced to resign, so I guess all in all it was a failure.
This happened back in King and Queen County VA about 3 years ago, by the way.

Not really a mutiny I guess, but it was sorta a rebellion.

My current University burned down a Bank of America in 1970. Ah how the mighty have since fallen.

http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/feature/2005/9084.html

I would count things like Columbine as a sort of mutiny, though not school wide. Whether or not you'd say those were successful would be a matter of opinion.

Also, I headed a protest called DCV-Day where a large portion of the student body was suspened for violating the dress code at my high school.

Student protests at a University level happen all the time. They were popular in the US during the vietnam era. A few of them ended in deaths, most notably the Kent State riots which inspired Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young to write the song "Ohio".

I participated in various protests at my own university. At one time closing it down for nearly two months.

My current University burned down a Bank of America in 1970. Ah how the mighty have since fallen.

http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/feature/2005/9084.html
Heh, my mom was a part of that. I shit you not. :D

Anyway, there haven't been any real successful school revolutions in the U.S. due to things like the military intervening, and that just gets messy. In places like Argentina and Eastern Europe, however, school revolutions have proven successful. Students have taken over schools and set up a dictatorship of the student body. Students vote on the hiring and firing of faculty, and students decide their wadges.

Also, any of this would be kind of hard due to the lovely district system of decentralized power in America. Oh well.

No, but I've plotted with several friends on how to launch a coup de'etat (sp?) and overthrow our student council - but what would we actually do? The school would reject our authority, and we can't DO anything to the council members or we'd probably get expelled.

Seriously, I've always wondered this and just looked it up. Not a single result. Anyone? And no, thinking of heading one doesnt count. I'm looking for an actual success/failure.

Does invading and occupying the central administration office of an university for several days, to convince it to allow students have a democratic say in its running, count ? If so you may wish to look up the occupation of the "Maagdenhuis" in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the sixties. Oh, and that one of a few weeks ago ;)

In Israel a few weeks ago, over 200'000 (I think) school pupils didn't come to school to protest against a new report looking at cutting down holidays, longer hours, and other such disadvantages.

(I'll try and find a link)

1960's france ring any bells? Massive student riots in paris, students cobble-stoning police, etc?

They happen fairly often sometimes refered to as walkouts. They don't take over the school or anything. Simply put all the students just walkout. They have a hard time charging the whole student body with truancy. Arround here they are usually done for political reasons, which I suspect are mostly just an excuse to ditch school and be rebellious, but not to say that some of the political reasons aren't worthy of merit.

Looking for formal protest?

Organized Protests?

or just protests?

here are some links.
T-shirts (http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=12854)

baby boomers (http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=313)

Historic Berkeley (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/)

more berkeley (http://www.fsm-a.org/stacks/mario/savio_studrebel.htm)

can't believe you couldn't find anything. I found a ton of stuff on school protests. Try Google.

There was what was reported as a 'mutiny' at Eton (the terribly, terribly upper-class British school) in the 1800s. Can't remember what it was about. Can't remember the outcome, either. I found mention of it in a book years ago when I was researching something totally unrelated. And I can't remember that, either. Eheu whatever fugaces, or something along those lines.

My friends and I are planning to stage a communist uprising at our school (Abingdon School, a private school like eton but with a few less terriblys =)

but only as a muck up day stunt, it'll be a riot :)

This ones for you Mark Turner :mp5:

Don't know if you'd qualify it, but there are an increaseing number of primary and secondary schools in Japan that experience "clssroom collapse", in which the discipline needed for school to function collapses due to an inability of the teachers to maintain order. I doubt most of these incidents really qualify because they tend to be breakdowns in social mores, not preplanned episodes.

http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/japan_schools_discipline_in_recess.htm

Some friends of mine and I launched a military coup at Murry State University. The goal was to capture the entire campus in the name of our Hall Director. We amassed a formidable arsenal of Super Soakers and managed to capture several of the dorms (we brought their Hall Directors back to swear fealty to Beth, kissed them on the forehead and sent them on their way).....it was great fun but alas, it was exams week and so we not well recieved by the powers the were......does that count?

Seriously, I've always wondered this and just looked it up. Not a single result. Anyone? And no, thinking of heading one doesnt count. I'm looking for an actual success/failure.
Indeed there was. I know of a lot, but ones that I took place in. When I was a foreign exchange in the US I headed one.