lets edit again :v

@Paradox_Brony  
You’re right, they most likely will not.

@Shimmering Spectacle
 
Of course we’ll never know exactly how long. I just wanted figure out the rough estimate based on how long a semester is.

@Ebalosus
 
@Paradox_Brony  
Unless Hasbro tell us how much time has past between each episode, we’ll never know exactly, in “it isn’t the MANE thing about you” it showed that months has past, which is the time it takes for Rarity’s hair to grow back.

@Background Pony Number 17  
If the school is just gonna always pick Fluttershy without even giving the other teachers a thought, then the Teacher of the Month awards should be discontinued or rename it the “Non-Fluttershy Teacher of the Month” awards.

@Paradox_Brony  

5 and 2/3 semesters assuming of course a 12 month year and 4 semesters per year per how it’s organised for compulsory education in Commonwealth countries.

@Red-Supernova  
Yes. It’s a running gag.
 
The joke-behind-the-joke is that Twilight Sparkle started the “teacher of the month” competition, and she seems Tartarus-bent on continuing it even though it’s obviously pointless by now. That’s our OCD princess for you.

Yeah, the whole “Fluttershy’s reaction pic” joke is getting old. Is this how she always looks when her photo is taken for every occasion?

We’re gonna need a bigger wall

Obligatory Fluttershy is best pony.

So AJ and RD didn’t win teacher of the month in the end Non-compete Clause after all? Even more reason for it to be a pointless episode.

@Paradox_Brony  
Don’t worry, I sometimes get seasons 5 and 6 mix up these days when I’m talking about Starlight glimmer.

@Background Pony #5375
 
Whoopsie
 

@Paradox_Brony  
The School opened on Season 8, not 7.

@Paradox_Brony  
About what I’ve said, it’s probably on average.

@PonyPon
 
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@Darth Prime  
Not in Massachusetts either with the winters we’ve had… and school tends to start the last week of August, giving them maybe seventy days, tops.

@punzil504  
Not in Japan there’s not.

@Paradox_Brony  
Assuming the teacher of the month award was present since its beginning.

Well, if there’s 104 days of summer vacation…

@Shimmering Spectacle
 
@punzil504
 
 
That could be true but it’s unfortunately very likely that the Christmas special takes place after the end of Season 7 and these new shorts take place after the Christmas special & Christmas shorts.
 
Since Season 7 had a Christmas episode that means bare minimum 2 years have passed. So if 2 years have passed since the start of Season 7 and Fluttershy has been teacher of the month for 17 months how much of the year does the school operate?

@Paradox_Brony  
Well, considering that Equestria uses Moons as a length of time, it’s possible that there are 13 months in an Equestrian year…

@Paradox_Brony  
Maybe since season 1, each episode may have been a month in between.

16, 16 months.
 
That’s how long the school has been open from the beginning of Season 7 to the Christmas Special.
 
Somebody who knows more about school systems tell me how many semesters that is.
 
Edit: Apparently at the end of the short a 17th picture is taken. So the school has been open for 17 months.

Fluttershy is the new Spongebob.