Muck-up day

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"Muck-up day" is the name given to an unofficial tradition within secondary schools where students are involved with pranks and other activities on their last official day of school before leaving. The practice has been banned within some schools, most commonly independent schools, and replaced with formal leaving activities to ensure students not commit crimes or vandalise school or other property.

Muck-up Day is traditionally Australian, but the UK has adopted the term from television shows like Home and Away and Neighbours. Muck-up day was a common practice in all schools in Australia until the 1980s, which was when principals started banning the practice. Most Australian schools still continue the tradition, but on a smaller scale.

Many rival schools prank other schools that are considered rivals rather than their own. This causes the rivalry to grow.

Common pranks pulled either within the pranksters own schools or rival schools are; egging of buildings, graffiti, vandalism, trespassing, releasing of animals within buildings, moving of statues or monuments, starting barbecues in unusual places in unusual attire and using water pistols with anything but water in them.

In Victoria, the 2006 muck-up day took place from the end of October till mid November, with the exact date depending on the school.

In South Australia, pranksters use their cars to drive around school areas and graffiti schools property and the cars of students who attend that school. It is labeled by the delinquents as the spray'n'flex.