Yeah, you can make those assumptions, but the show really doesn’t do anything to address it, so it’s not much more than speculation, and it still leaves questions unanswered, like “Who’s teaching the basic academic stuff?” and “How much time do the Mane Six actually spend at this school of theirs?”

Yeah, Dash manages, but she has super speed and had plenty of free time before she joined the Wonderbolts, plus we haven’t seen her on weather duty in a while, so she might have left that job to somepony else at some point, most likely when she got bumped up to the main Wonderbolts team.

What about Rarity, who owns a business that requires her to make her work fit her clients’ schedules, or, more to the point, Applejack, who already had two episodes about how busy she always is before they opened the school?

We’re gonna have to agree to disagree on that one, because I think it’s fair to say that some of them have grown more than others. And I really don’t like how they’re apparently more special than the Mane Six just because destiny says so and Tree Zordon only talks to them.

And other than Smolder, who shares Spike’s episodes, they really don’t seem to spend time with anyone but each other. And none of the other students even seem to have names. It kinda makes it feel like the whole school is full of shadow puppets other than the six of them.

I guess I just kinda feel like the Student Six weren’t really necessary, since there were already plenty of other characters that could stand the screentime.

First and foremost, obviously, would be the pillars. There’s also Starlight, who wasn’t hanging out with any of the Mane Six other than Twilight; showing her becoming closer friends with the rest of them would have gone a long way.

The CMC were doing a lot of growing in seasons six and seven, and could have grown into the rose of the Mane Six’s successors quite nicely had the Student Six not shown up.

And if they still decided to have Sugar Belle take up an apprenticeship with Mrs. Cake, she’d be very easy to use as a supporting character, since she’d be working in the same place as Pinkie and dating Applejack’s brother, has plenty of room for character development, and they could definitely get an episode’s worth of drama out of her history with Starlight.

@Scrounge
Pretty sure that math and other subjects are being taught off screen.

Ask for their schedules, they seem to have worked around it just fine (Rainbow Dash Is no surprise considering the fact that she can manage being a Wonderbolt, acting as captain for the weather team, and spending time with Scootaloo).

Plus, the school is a good idea because it technically helps teach them aspects of the magic of Friendship, which seems to have worked considering how far the Student 6 have come.