Defiant primary schoolers build Capitalist tribes in unconscious rebellion against an alternative learning approach

Charlie tells the story of the rise of school community 'Down Bush' fostering trade relations and establishing hierarchial roles despite being students of an equal-access egalitarian alternative school 'Up Bush'. Ironically, lack of competition and pressures placed on kids to share all resources unintentionally lead them to seek out material wealth and competitive free-market economy in their play. Younger students build cubbies and huts, while the older students engage in political warfare surrounding their primary currency- huge balls of tree sap. A 'rite of passage' the lunch time tribes Down Bush were a way of life that stood the test of time through generations and survived an order by the school to abolish all material possessions only to start all over again...