Shooting up a public school in the middle of nowhere is not the way to win the hearts and minds of the proletariat, comrades.
Besides, everyone knows that teachers are liberal pinkos. They're all just a couple of days' worth of agitprop away from signing up for party membership and planning committee positions.
Meek-but-secretly-seething Mr. McPhearson (4th grade) would gleefully accuse the asshole redneck dad (who once called him a pansy in a minor altercation at the King Kwik and who's asshole kid vandalized his Dodge Neon) with anti-revolutionary activities and being a tool of the capitalist oligarchy.
In short, a not very well planned out invasion. The Russians must have had Rumsfeld advising them (ZING)!
They went on airline flights, I think. How the FAA or other agencies didn't notice commercial airliners going horribly off-course so that they could fly over a rural town's school is a mystery though.
In retrospect, naming your guerrilla group after something that gives away your identity and then advertising that name to the occupiers wasn't the best decision.