School Rules! is a picture book (ages 3-8) written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by David Whamond. It tells the story of Cassandra, a real-life person who wrote to Munsch as a child and told him the most interesting thing about herself is that she loves going to school.
Of course not all that happens at school is blissful (a "slightly scary principal," a tattooed janitor, etc) which I guess is the point of Munsch's book: to convince children who don't like -- or are afraid of -- school to think of it as good medicine (but not a vaccine, or a place where masks are worn).
When I checked the School Rules! publication date I saw that it came out in July 2021, a couple months before the 2021-2022 school year. This would be Year Three of the pandemic, when some kids still had no idea of what school was -- at least not as we knew it.
School for me was a highly regulated affair, where we pretty much learned by rote and routine. Today's Grade Three student has thus far had nothing but irregularities and improvisation, which is great for those who have adapted to it, because the super heroes of the future are more likely to be McGyvers than Batman, Xena or the Black Panther.
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