Friendship gets Schooled?

It was finally the weekend, and that made Alphabittle a very happy pony.

As morning broke over Ponyville, many of the ponies were going about their daily business. Sweetberry already had her bakery open, and was selling sweet treats to the other equines. Rainbow dash and Sew and Sew had already opened up their dress shop, and customers were already lining up. Round and Round already had the Rainbow Wishes amusement park up and running, with the early morning roller coaster riders, like Sunny Daze and Sparkleworks, were eager to catch a ride. The town was already going about it's daily hustle and bustle, even thoguh the Sun had only been up a few hours.

"Alphabittle, Darling! there you are!" Rainbow Dash called out, waving her hoof from the door of her dress shop. "We been looking all over for you!"

Rainbow Dash, the dazzling blue earth pony with the Rainbow Mane. She was the salespony and dress modeling diva for Sew-and-Sew's dress shop, and she was considered the most 'dashing' mare in all of Ponyville. Alphabittle had encountered a Pegasus named Rainbow dash in the school files she had been reading, but the school teacher simply assumed that mare was an ancestor of the Dashie she knew.

"Rainbow, hello!" The teacher waved back, trotting over to the entrance of the dress shop. "I've been meaning to stop in this week end. Do you girls have my dress ready?"

"We certainly do, Alpha darling!" Rainbow Replied, as the two went inside the Sweet Reflections Dress Shop. "Sew and Sew has made all of the changes to your dress that you requested for The Spring Promenade, and we want to take you in for a fitting. Come on!"

The teacher trotted past several clothing racks, filled with dresses and accessories. But as she trotted back towards the fitting rooms, Alphabittle noticed a bunch of the town's mares surrounding a cute little Pegasus filly, one whom she had already met.

"Thank you so very much for being so kind to me, everypony." Cozy Glow smiled, staring at the mares around her with big, adorable eyes. "An orphan like me can't really afford new clothes, so it's really nice of all of you to help me out like this."

"Awww, you're so adorable!" Sew and Sew replied, patting the little filly on the head. "Don't worry about it, little one. We're more than happy to make you feel at home here in Ponyville!"

"Oh, that little filly simply adorable!" Rainbow dash spoke up, as she stopped to see what the teacher was looking at. "I hear she's going to be one of your newest students, darling!"

"Yeah, but I think I'm going to have to teach her proper grammar." The teacher mused. "She keeps saying 'anypony' and 'everypony' instead of 'anybody' or 'everybody'. that child needs to learn proper grammar!"

"Oh, I don't know, darling. I've heard ponies outside of Ponyville use that term." Rainbow Dash just shrugged. "Anyway, I have your finished party gown over here. Why don't you sit down and wait here, while I go back and search the racks in the back for your dress, darling!"

Alphabittle nodded, sitting down in a chair to wait for her friend's return. When Rainbow Dash didn't come back after several minutes, the teacher decided to pull out the file from the Friendship school, and started to read again;

Our first few weeks at classes have been going well, and my friends are turning out to be excellent teachers. The students love Pinkie's Pie's party canon's and silly games; she is teaching them laughter through making her students laugh. Fluttershy is teaching kindness by having her students interact with her animals. This has gone along way towards making making her the most popular teacher with many of our students. Everypony is gettign along well at the school ,though we have had a few...difficulties.

I mean, all of the pony students are taking to their lessons well. But the non-pony students have been having some problems adjusting to the school, and living among ponies. Smolder the dragon cringes in disgust at anything girly, while Ocellus the changeling is so shy, she won't make friends with anypony. And to make matters worse, each of the non-ponies are making friends with the students most like themselves; the tomboyish Smolder has made friends with Gallus the griffin, While our energetic hippogriff Silversteam has befriended Yona the yack. I am trying to teach them to make friends with EVERPONY, not just isolating themselves to just those with similar personalities.

Still, they are starting to make friends, so I suppose any kind of progress is good progress. But it's still difficult for them, though I am not entirely certain why. Pinkie Pie believes it's the 'boring' curriculum the EEA has imposed upon the school, but what am I supposed to do? Everypony who runs a school in Equestria must meet the requirements of Chancellor Neighsay, and I only want to keep this school open, so I can teach everypony in the world about friendship.I wish the students could understand we are all doing our best, and at least try to make friends with each other.

Well, at least the school's friends and family day is coming up, maybe things will get better by then. I certainly hope they do, as Chancellor Neighsay will be visiting to check on our progress...

"Here we are, darling!" Rainbow Dash's voice called out. "The blue bouffant dress ensemble with low-cut neckline and matching knee-length socks! You'll look ravishing at the spring promenade in this, darling!"

Alphabittle was pulled out of her reading when her friend approached again, carrying her modified gown. The teaching mare took the gown, and trotted back into the dressing room to try it on. But as she put on the dress, questions began to go through Alpha's mind; Ponyville schools once answered to the EEC? And what were some of those non-pony creatures the file described? She knew what dragons and griffins were, but hippogriffs were extinct, and changelings were only a myth! Just what kind of school did this 'Princess Twilight' even run? And it still didn't answer her original questions about needing to teach friendship in the first place!

And as she looked out of the dressing room door towards where cozy glow and the mares were standing, she began to wonder if the little filly, who appeared at the same time as the school had been discovered, might have something to do with all of this. But then she quickly dismissed the idea, and went back to trying on her dress.