The day seemed to go on forever, at Ponyville's little schoolhouse. All of the little colts and fillies tried desperately to pay attention to Alphabittle's lessons, even as many of their eyes were glued to the clock on the nearby wall. Their teacher wrote on the chalkboard, lecturing the students about a grammar lesson, while occasionally turning to stop her student's mischievous antics.

"Penny Candy, stop throwing paper airplanes!"

"Sorry, Miss Alphabittle!"

"Charm Bracelet, please stop throwing paper airplanes!"

"Gomen nasai, Aplhabittle-sensei!"

When it seemed to the frazzled mare that the day could not go on any longer, the clock finally stuck the hour that marked the end of classes; the end of the poor mare's suffering for the day. And it couldn't have come a moment sooner, as her nerves were frayed well beyond the breaking point.

"Okay, that's it for today , class!" Alphabittle called to her students, as the bell rang. "Make sure to finish your assignments, and hand them in by Monday morning!"

The students all filed out of her classroom, gossiping and giggling as they trotted out into the open sunlight. Racing out past they playground equipment, each of the students went happily galloping on their way home. they were all happy to be done with classes for the week, and eagerly looking forward to all of the fun that awaited them over the weekend

As her students departed, Alpha collapsed back into her chair with an exhausted sigh. It had been an extremely rough week for the school mare, one in which she had dealt with spit wads, pathetic homework excuses, colt fights, filly gossiping, and the hundreds of little problems that plagued a school teacher in Ponyville. The weekend should be her ideal time to relax and unwind... except for the mountain of papers and exams she had to grade.

"Ugh, what an exhausting day this was. I really need a vacation, maybe go somewhere else in Equestria for a week. or so." The mare sighed, picking up the stack of papers, and shuffling through them. "Well, there a lot of stuff to go over here. I guess I had better get started."

But as the school teacher looked through the stacks, she found one of the folders she and the other two mares had uncovered in the old abandoned school in the middle of Ponyville. Looking at the side, she read the name off of the extremely faded label;

"Princess Twilight Sparkle, Principle." A look of confusion crossed the teacher's face. "Why would a princess be the principle of a school?"

Alphabittle did know who Twilight Sparkle was, however. The teacher had gone to Storybelle's library, and done some research in the archives. Twilight Sparkle had been the first princess of Ponyville ages ago, the ancestor of their current ruler, Princess Wysteria. It was she who had built celebration castle in the middle of Ponyville, and it was she who had built the school to educate ponies and other races about the concepts of friendship. Now the teacher at least understood what the school was for.

But that sill begged the question; why would anybody need to be taught about friendship, a natural concept everyone should understand? School was usually for learning how to read and write, to do math problems and understand basic concepts. Were ponies and other creatures from that era really that ignorant, that they had to learn these concepts in a school?

Looking down at the folder, the teaching mare was determined to find out. Cracking it open, and blowing the ancient dust from the pages, and carefully began to read from the file....

Well, it looks like everything is finally falling into place. After our adventure rescuing Equestria from the storm king, I came to realize my friends and I cannot run all over the world, solving everybody's friendship problems. Therefore, I have decided to found a school here in Ponyville, where we can bring the ponies and creatures who don't understand friendship to us, and we can teach them all in one place. I have gone to Chancellor Neighsay and the EEC to gain approval for this new school, and they appear to supportive of my goals. So I have received approval for my plans to open the school.

Construction has begun in Ponyville, and all of my friends are lending a hoof with building the new school. Many businesses here in town are hopeful the school will drive up Ponyville's commerce, while I am hopeful this will help bring the message of friendship to the Equestria nad the lands beyond. It is my hope, that we can reach a point where there will be no more Tireks or Chrysalises, and everpony across the world will embrace friendship instead of anger and hatred...

"Ummm, excuse me, Miss Alphabittle?" A timid voice whispered, coming from in front of the teacher's desk. "I'm really sorry to bother you, but I heard you're the teacher here, and I thought you could help me."

Alphabittle stood up, and looking over the edge of her desk, saw an adorable pink Pegasus filly, with a striped blue mane filled with curls. The timid little filly looked so adorable, Alphabittle had to resist the urge to pick her up, and hug her.

"Well hello, little one! You must be new in town!" The friendly mare smiled. "Are you from butterfly island? What can I do for you?"

"Well, m-my name is Cozy Glow, and I am a n-new student." The little filly pouted. "I just moved here from Fillydelphia, and I don't have any friends, or anybody I know here..."

"You're from Fillydelphia? that's amazing!" Alphabittle asked in shock. The teacher had never had a student from somewhere else in Equestria, except from Unicornia or Butterfly Island. "Don't worry, Cozy! I'm sure you'll make some very good friends here in Ponyville. Welcome to my class, and to our little town!"

And as Alphabittle saw the little Pegasus filly out of the schoolhouse, she failed to notice a sinister gleam in the little filly's eye.

Author's Note

to learn more about Alphabittle and her ponyville class outside of this story, check out this short story from a collection here; https://www.fimfiction.net/story/298009/17/tales-of-another-ponyville/classroom-craziness