1) There have been efforts recently to negotiate with the current griffon ruler, but for now completely. Only griffons that have entered Equestria in the past with no serious criminal record are free to come and go.

2) The lonely night seems to do that to some ponies. Tomorrow is a brighter day!

3) Lyra: Hey! It’s not my fault the vacuum suddenly didn’t want to start!

Bon-Bon: But it is my fault the vacuum suddenly did want to start. And whatever you did, it better not happen again!

Lyra: … Hate that stupid vacuum…

4) What’s Labor Day?

Why would they study your eye?

5) The trend seems to be toward Kindergarten and the Sped department in primary schools. I do get to sit in on music classes sometimes, but I’m not really supposed to do anything unless there’s a problem.

There was this one time where I got to play a tambourine and the music teacher was pleased.

1) Dude, I have no idea. There are no schools in Equestria that are specifically for griffons. I’ve never taught at one, I’ve never been to one, so I have no idea what to compare to.

2) Not that I know of. I mean, it’s possible and I just don’t know they’re from here.

In fact, only one I can think of off the top of my head is this country band that plays at this one restaurant every Tuesday, but I’ve never been while they’re performing.

3) If you were comparing a shotgun to the arm vs. death, you might have a legitimate argument. There would almost certainly be residual effects to the non-lethal attacks compared to them not happening. But against being killed? No. No question. If you’re talking about reaction time being lowered by even a full second, that’s compared to it being lowered by… forever!

4) A legitimate position, but where’s the proof that the cameras came before the following?

5) I’ll take my chances.

6) Bleh! No! … I mean… No.

Relatively. That is to say, I went to a regular school like a normal foal.

I didn’t do very well in anything other than math up until high school, though. Didn’t have time to study or do homework half the time.