That’s from a classroom for five year olds. A classroom. For five year olds.

There are so many problems here. Equating considerate, compliant and conforms is just bizarre, like saying that bananas and baseballs make for equally good meals because both start with “b.” And bossing is somehow a lower level, as if bossy people can be expected to grow into compliant people (who then become democratic people)? And the idea of some five year old child coming home from school today to despondently tell her parents, “Today I was an anarchist.” Because when you run down the hall, you’re not just breaking a rule or letting your five-year-old feelings carry you away– you are challenging the very order of the universe itself.