How do I wipe my emac?

I want to donate my emac to a school for use by special education students. How do I wip all my personal data frm computer?

I don't know what options does, like I said it was greyed out. Your disc utility display shows a "security options" button. My display shows only options and erase -- no secure erase.
I'm wondering if I have already deleted everything and just didn't realize it? In looking at disc utility info screen, it indicates I have 55.9 GB capacity and 53.67 available, I.e. only 2.2 GB has been used. Before more than half of the available GBs had been used...
When I bought a new MacBook Pro the Apples store transferred all info, settings, basically everything from the eMac. I then went thru eMac and moved all my personal info, files, sensitive data onto rw CDs, so I wonder if in moving them it deleted from the eMac hard drive, so there's no free space to erase, and then I wiped the hard drive so that's why the erase button is greyed out?
Sorry to be such a bother, but I'm at a loss to account for why it's so involved to accomplish this. I have used Apple products for over 20 years, still feel I'm running full tilt just to stay with the pack :-)
Would it do any good looking for a pathway into the "free space", see if I can access that, then delete whatever is on there?

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Then hold c booting from a OS X install disk (10.6 or earlier if th emachine came with that) or hold option key booting from a 10.7 install USB ($69, no user ID associated) and install your OS onto the new drive and shutdown at the Welcome screen.
2: If you don't want to replace the drive but don't want a wealthy individual, corporation or government using special equipment to read most of your data.
Then hold c booting from a OS X install disk, (or command r booting from 10.7 Recovery) and using Disk Utility to Erase with 7x overwrite on the OS X boot partition will do. Takes many hours to complete.
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