After exposing the gruesome inner workings of the City Legislature system to the masses, the spirit of chaos that was Discord decided to focus on something entirely different. And something that was a little more closer to home that he originally thought. That being Princess Twilight’s school of friendship, or what he called a lakeside friendship resort. Over the past few days, there wasn’t a lot of things happening that would really catch his attention. But, when a field trip with some of the class members of the school went wrong in every possible way, the draconequus soon realized that it wasn’t the fault of the students… but the two teachers supervising the trip.
Two of Twilight’s closest friends… Rainbow Dash and Applejack.
According to Spike, the two of them were supposed to teach the students teamwork… but ended up doing the opposite because the two of them were competing over the stupidest thing possible. Though… it turned out that their rivalry went much further back than this single incident. And something like that seemed to be something that needed to be addressed so this instance doesn’t end up repeating itself. And thanks to a visit he made to the school earlier in the week, he got all the info he needed to know in order to prepare for this.
So, as his show was going through the opening credits, that was when he greeted his audience with a warm welcome and diving directly into the main subject. “Our main story tonight regards the School of Friendship… the place where you learn many things to do… as well as things that you should not do. Case in point… don’t leave Spike alone in a room full of gemstones…” The crowd laughed for a moment as an image of Spike resisting temptation. “Recently though, there’s been a bit of drama though and before you ask… it does not involve Chancellor McDoucheface. I just wanted to make that clear because he is still handling the mice that are talking inside his head.”
Again, more laughs at how irritated Chancellor Neighsay was with a particular pair of mice as Discord looked back at the camera. “Tonight’s story is focused on the teachers… and two particular ones. Applejack and Rainbow Dash; friends and also competitive rivals. Kind of like Sky Stinger and Vapor, but in this case, both of them can be seen as attractive.” That small line had the whole crowd off guard and some of them were still laughing over the joke as Discord continued.
“And for some of you, you might be thinking… Why exactly are we having tonight’s main story be focused on this? Well… remember when I mentioned that the two of them were competitive rivals? Well, with them being teachers, I would think that they would set that aside so they can be focused on the students they are teaching… but on the schools most recent field trip, that turned out not to be the case,” The Draconequus added on. “And don’t take it from me… listen to Spike talk about one particular incident that only occurred just two days ago.”
“Well… Applejack and Rainbow Dash were on a field trip with the rest of the students at the school in order to try and teach them how to do teamwork… But instead of actually doing that, the two of them were busy competing with each other over what I would say is the dumbest thing possible and ended up putting the lives of the students in danger.”
“And that is?” Discord asked Spike as the dragon looked back at him.
“The title of ‘Teacher of the Month’.”
The crowd sounded surprised by that, before the spirit of chaos spoke up. “Putting your students lives at risk to be teacher of the month… That concept does not make any sense whatsoever and I’m a draconequus…” That had the crowd laughing for a moment as he looked back at him. “I’m basically the living embodiment of things that don’t make sense.”
That had the crowd laughing at that, before Discord took a deep breath. “But to what Spike said, their actions did put the lives of their students in danger. They almost rode a canoe into a river filled with Bite-acuda fish, you had one of your students and ‘best yak’ almost drown and another almost got lost on their nature walk. Not to mention the fact that they built two separate bridges to try and get across, but neither one worked because it was over the same river of bite-acuda fish. And that’s not even the end of it. The students told Twilight that both of them competed and argued with one another… by agreeing on which idea is the best. And I got to hand it to Twilight, that last one is still something that I’m trying to wrap my head around.”
Then, Discord was beginning to point out something else. “Though, this whole thing with the two of them competing against each other is… not entirely new. Both of them have competed in numerous different challenges with one another, like Apple-bucking contests and races. Including the annual ‘Running of the Leaves’. Where they both lost to a purple nerd who would end up being a princess.”
The image of that was shown where Applejack and Rainbow were stunned by the fact that Twilight was in first place that year as the crowd laughed at the expressions that both ponies had on their faces. “But this isn’t some stupid race or a silly game, this is a professional institution that’s supposed to teach other creatures the values of friendship. You can’t do that if the two of them are butting heads with one another like bighorn rams fighting each other on mountaintops,” Discord had another image of what looked like Applejack and Rainbow Dash as rams bucking their heads into each other while the students at Twilight’s school watched. “And it’s not just me that knows this… The Princess of Friendship and the school’s headmaster, Twilight ‘Bookworm’ Sparkle knows this too.”
Now the image of a golden nameplate on Twilight’s desk that had her middle name be ‘Bookworm’ was shown as more of the crowd laughed. “She’s also not a fan of this… in fact, she was absolutely livid about the whole thing happening in the first place. Livid to the whole point that you can actually hear her voice echo throughout the hallway as she talked to Rainbow Dash and Applejack the following day.”
The interior of the school of friendship was calm and quiet as most of the students were just minding their own business. Sandbar was playing a game involving a deck of cards with both Gallus and Smolder, Silverstream was playing with a slinky and lastly, Ocellus and Yona were just having a nice quiet chat.
Soon though, the entire room began to shake as playing cards were scattered everywhere, Silverstream’s slinky was caught in Smolder’s horns and Ocellus was shuttering as they heard the sound of an angry princess echo throughout the hallway. “WHAT WERE YOU TWO THINKING!?!”
That had the entire crowd in an uproar and even had Discord slapping his desk because of how hilarious that was. “You know that things are not good when you are a student there and you can hear your Headmaster’s frustration echo throughout the entire hallway… but it goes to show how the actions of two ponies… who were just being competitive over a trophy… would lead to the two of them in hot water… Because there was one thing that they didn’t seem to realize when they think about the whole teacher of the month thing… that fighting over such a pointless thing is just stupid. You don’t see ponies in a manehattan supermarket fight each other for being ‘Employee of the Month’, so why the f*yay*ck made you think that fighting over something like this is remotely okay?”
That had Discord lead into another key point. “Teacher of the Month is something that isn’t given to you, it’s something that you earn through hard work and through showing to your students that you care for their well being. Hell, the last pony who won it was Fluttershy… and she won it just by doing what she was doing naturally. It was not something she asked for, but she got it anyways,” Around now was when it showed an embarrassed Fluttershy receiving the award while Rainbow and Applejack were looking at her with jealousy in their eyes. “And do you want to know why she deserves that award?”
Several ponies looked at one another in confusion, before looking back to the Draconequus. “It’s because of how she was able to connect with her students. It’s because of how she teaches her students, and more importantly, how she makes learning fun for them. It’s not about competition when it comes to her, it’s about teaching somepony good values and how much of an impact she had on her students and those who are around her. Take it from me. She was able to reform me for Pete’s sake when Applejack and Rainbow both originally thought that something like that was beyond insane. And of course, the road to redemption was a bit bumpy, but look at me now!”
That was followed by an image of Discord and Fluttershy holding a 4th annual reformation party with balloons, confetti and cake inside of Fluttershy’s own cottage as the draconequus looked back at the audience. “Of course, even though Rainbow and Applejack were able to teach their students the lesson that they were supposed to teach them… they did it in a way that makes literally no sense. Because the students learned teamwork… by doing the exact opposite. Just think about that… and think about what happened if they applied that philosophy to other lessons. Like teaching Honesty by showing what happens when somepony is caught in a lie… or loyalty by showing what happens when you stab somepony in the back. It makes no sense and something like that should not be implied at a school that’s supposed to TEACH these important skills.”
Then, Discord let out a deep breath as he looked back at both of them. “And speaking of teaching… What exact credentials do either of these two have to be qualified as actual teachers? I mean sure, they’re Elements of Harmony and they are friends to Twilight, but other than teaching them about Honesty and Loyalty… what other things qualify them to be teachers? Sure, they’re heroes but… come on. Did Twilight not consider bringing on… well, actual teachers? Or are they just as xenophobic and racist as Chancellor NeighSh*yay*t over here?”
The draconequus took in a deep breath as he looked back at the audience before beginning to speak once more. “I mean… they probably might’ve asked Cheerilee, but the thought of her having to help with two schools might give her so much of a headache that she would be really looking forward to a vacation by the end of the school year.” That was followed by a image of Cheerilee on vacation down by Pi-ami beach as she was basking in the glow of the sun. But then… Discord realized something.
“But maybe… just maybe… Applejack and Rainbow can actually take some notes from Cheerilee on this one. She tends to kids much younger than your own students and yet, you don’t see her competing with anyone in Ponyville’s own school system for an award. She cares for her students learning, their well being, how well they do in class and also does field trips that don’t have any kind of life or death risk at all.” That moment was accompanied by a picture of a class trip to an ancient history museum in Manehattan as her class was mostly paying attention to what Cheerilee was telling her. “So… to Applejack and Rainbow… I say this. The first and most important thing that you should only care about as a teacher is your students. You should be wanting to go everyday to work wanting to see how much of an impact you’ve had on your students and not see how close you are to getting a f*yay*cking award that literally has no sentimental value or point to it whatsoever…”
The whole crowd cheered at that in agreement to what the draconequus said, shortly before finishing it off with one final segment. “And now… This.”
And now… Seriously? Does Princess Twilight even realize that her students can hear her shouting in her office?
As the Class of Friendship were cleaning up the mess that was caused when Princess Twilight’s original outburst filled the hallways… they were soon rocked by even more comments that echoed off the walls. Even getting to the point that Silverstream was almost tangled up in her own slinky when removing it from Smolder’s horns and Ocellus was hiding behind Yona out of fear. All while Twilight was ranting to Applejack and Rainbow that they personally forgot about the one thing that they were suppose to care for more than a trophy… their students. That and Spike sticking around to see what would happen next.
Then, there was the fact that the students were there when they saw Rainbow asking one more question to Twilight… and ended up having an award chucked at her head as it stuck to the wall like a throwing knife.
And as both mares left the campus… there was only one question on onepony’s mind as he tried to lean back in a nearby chair. “So… is class cancelled today?”
“Sandbar, Twilight already put in substitutes for your classes.” The comment from Spike had Sandbar fall backwards and hit the floor with a loud thud. But… across the hall, somepony took that for something else.
“Rainbow, if you SLAMMED THE DOORS TO THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL, I SWEAR TO CELESTIA THAT I WILL MAKE YOUR SUSPENSION FOUR WEEKS!!”
That… had Sandbar immediately back up on his hooves as he placed the chair on the floor and looked back at the class. “...... Note to self, never make Princess Twilight angry.”