No horsing around
By Sengir84
Pascalle Pinoit woke up. The pinto woman surveyed her surroundings. She had a few friends crash in her apartment after an all-nighter, but she had to go to work herself. She checked on her friends to make sure they were alright, she wrote a note on how to take care of her pet mouse and quietly left her apartment.
Pascalle was sort of the mentor of her friend group. She always made sure her friends had a place to go after a bad night and was always ready to give advice. She had done a lot of experimenting herself in the past and she learned almost every trick in the dance scene. The good and the bad.
She would sometimes join her friends, if she didn’t have to go to work the next day, but last night was not one of those nights. Still, you would not be able to tell looking at the coloring in her hair, mane and tail. She just liked the look though.
As she pulled up to the primary school, she greeted the janitor. He was a dedicated sort. Always on time and always available to do copying work the teachers could not do themselves. Though he would complain about a lot of teachers, he never said anything bad about Pascalle, or at least as far as she knew.
The school itself was a relatively new school. There were not that many children there yet and some grades were seated together. Pascalle had 7th and 8th grade together and those were 21 children total. 12 in the 7th grade and 9 in the 8th grade.
If she had to think of a few children in her class, her mind would quickly go to Shane and Evalyn Boder. Pascalle knew that the setup of the family was quite unique compared to the other children and Evalyn only joined the school recently. She showed to be on her normal level for her age and the two kids ended up sitting in the same class. Shane was mostly an average lad, but his enthusiasm for the game of soccer was something that brought a smile to Pascalle’s face every time he would talk so passionately about aspects of the games he watched.
Evalyn was still looking for her spot in the class and was mostly found around Shane. She tried to contact other kids, but as far as Pascalle knew, the fox girl had not that many friends yet. But that would only be a matter of time.
Pascalle entered the teaching lounge. There were not that many colleagues yet, because the school was so small, but she was still by far the youngest of the group. A few of her fellow teachers would make snide remarks about the coloring of her hair and her outgoing lifestyle, but Pascalle was not one to verbally confront someone like that. She’d show them through her actions. Her professors noticed the same after they said to her she could never be a teacher. And after getting the job and being a bit outcast she just worked harder to prove her place, and with success. She still had not that many good contacts with the other female teachers, but she loved hanging out with the janitor, headmaster and the few male teachers. They talked about their respective weekends before the bell rang for the start of the classes. Pascalle grabbed her bag and went to her class.
As a primary school teacher Pascalle has to know a bit about everything. Sure, she has her strengths with biology and geography but that just meant she could tell more about those subjects.
She also liked to use digital media a lot more. She knew the kids needed more experience in those media when they went to secondary school, so she made sure to teach the kids the proper way to find information and how to avoid pitfalls regarding false information.
Her latest idea for biology was kind of risky, but she asked permission from the headmaster and she got it. She was teaching the children about the various muscles in the body, so she had another suit underneath her normal clothes. A see-through suit with muscles printed on it all the way around.
“Alright class, it’s time for a small test to see how many muscles you have studied.”
She got on top of her desk and started to take off her clothes. Some of the children started to giggle and whisper to each other, but as soon as they saw the printed muscles all over their teacher, they all figured out what was going on. She would be the picture to see where in the body a certain muscle would be.
The class was seemingly very well received by the children. Everyone participated in the test and even though not everyone got enough muscles right this time, she was sure this was an experience the children would not forget and as such, would help them to learn the muscles they missed this time.
After that session there was a break, so she saw her children out to the playground. She stayed behind in her class and put her clothes back on before taking a short stop at the teacher’s lounge herself.
The headmaster called Pascalle to his office. He was very curious to hear the response of the children to the biology session. He also had another thing to ask her.
“Well now Pascalle, I’m glad to hear the biology session was a seemingly success. It’ll be interesting to see the test results later. But I have another question for you too.
Mister Leostra called and he wanted to put another child in our school. She will probably go to 6th grade. But from what I’ve heard about her past I think it would be best if one of our younger teachers would introduce her to the basics of the school. Her name is Tassy and she is a 9-year old cat. She’s scheduled to be here around 15:30.
“Yes sir. I’ll be sure to give her the tour and all the information she asks for.”
“Good. Now, I think it would be best you return to your class. They will come back soon.”
Pascalle left the office and went back to class. The children slowly came in again. Shane and Evalyn came in last with Shane’s pants green and brown from sliding on the grass. Pascalle gave the boy a ruffle and urged everyone to take their seats. The afternoon session would mostly be math and English. So Pascalle grabbed the books and did this part of her class normally.
The afternoon class went through normally. As the school day was over, she saw her students out and informed Caithlyn Boder about Shane’s pants. Ms. Boder reacted quite calmly, saying that she was used to this now, but she thanked Pascalle for the information.
It was 15:25 now and an expensive-looking car pulled up to the school. Pascalle stood ready as mr. Leostra and Tassy Two-tail left the car. Pascalle greeted the two and led them inside.
It was the lion who talked to Pascalle first. “I heard some friends of Tassy went to this school as well, which is the main reason I wanted her to come here. One of them, Evalyn Boder, was an orphan at my orphanage as well and I understand she found her place here too.”
Pascalle replied “Ah yes, Evalyn and her brother Shane. They are both in my class. Indeed, Evalyn is slowly opening up thanks to the support of her brother.”
“Good, good. Anyway, I’ve known quite a bit about this school already, but I wanted to let Tassy see the environment herself. Though she hasn’t had normal education, I performed some tests in the orphanage that shows she is quite a fast learner and seems to be on a slightly higher level than her age would suspect. Your headmaster should have all the documents regarding those tests.”
“Well, that sounds great. So Tassy, let’s see where you will be seated if you come here.”
Pascalle lead the two to the 6th grade classroom and introduced them to the teacher. She stayed with them to give more information about the later grades.
Tassy stayed quiet throughout the entire tour, just looking at the environment and opportunities to sneak out sometimes. But Pascalle noticed the girl’s attempts to leave and made sure she stayed around.
As the tour ended mr. Leostra and Tassy said their goodbyes and Pascalle saw them off, saying she hoped she would see them again soon.
Pascalle greeted everyone inside the school and went back home.
At her apartment her friends seemed to have come to from their night out and had already started to make dinner. “Hey there Pascalle, how was your day!”
“Well girls, you tell me about last night first. I’ll tell you about my day after that.”
In the evening her friends went home Pascalle prepared her next day of lessons.
She checked her mails, saw some photos of the night out her friends had and signed off shortly afterwards. It would be a new work day tomorrow, so she’d better get a good night’s rest.
