So I finally decided I was going to start watching season 8... While I should be grading papers.
OMG is this episode spot on... I am a drama teacher at a "international" school in China. The school just opened this year. We already lost 3 principals and a few teachers. But because drama class "wasn't improving the students English enough" I was told to teach ESL manners and culture class that is still called Drama... This MLP episode is way to familiar... To bad I can't share it with the teachers at school to help them see we should be trying to make our classes more fun (every time I try the administration who has never taught tells me to change my classes).
I imagine that they'd be good for very small children or dwarves who want to ride, and I know that back in the day they worked in coal mines and even before that women in the Shetlands brought them out to carry the fruits, berries and peat that they'd collected, but there isn't much of that now is there. I've heard of people using them for driving, but why not a larger pony that can pull more weight and also be rode? Are they mostly just companions that — for lack of a better example — get treated more like dogs than horses, living inside and going for walks and grazing the back garden instead of a pasture?
I love them and think they're adorable, but they cost quite a bit and most people don't spend that money on something that they can't do anything but coo at and feed apples to.
