what's your take on the modern au stark childrens parent evenings.
ned and catelyn always make sure to schedule robb’s conference right before rickon’s so that they have time to relax and feel validated for their parenting choices as they brace themselves for the inevitable that awaits them later (rickon biting someone again). all of robb’s teachers have nothing but praise for him, he’s a top student and everybody likes him and he’s doing like fifty thousand extracurricular activities including a study group that he’s just started, which they believe is singlehandedly responsible for the sudden jump in everyone’s GPA. however they’re a little worried that he’s not sleeping because he walk into class everyday with a can of red bull and pulls a new one out of his bag when he leaves. but overall he’s a good kid and he’s on track to be valedictorian, so they don’t bother about it too much. whatever keeps those grades up. although there was that really crazy scandal where he got jeyne westerling pregnant in the middle of SAT season, but everyone is kind of past that now. well except for some of the frey kids who were really pissed because everyone thought that robb and roslin frey were going to get together now that the starks and the freys are in business together, but it’s probably nothing to worry about. they’ll get over it and anyway, robb really should be focusing on his grades.
ned goes to jon’s conference alone of course, so catelyn takes the opportunity to day drink in the parking lot with cersei. jon is a top student like robb, which ned already knew but he’s proud of him anyway. jon doesn’t participate in class nearly as much as robb does, but he always answers correctly when he’s called on, so at least his teachers know that he’s paying attention. he also doesn’t do nearly as many extracurricular activities as robb does, but he’s super invested in this random club that’s been around forever but that nobody really remembers the purpose of. something to do with self-defense? or environmentalism? nobody really knows, but jon was somehow elected the president and now he’s letting all these kids from the school across town come to meetings, so half of the club is currently plotting to overthrow him. ned pretends not to hear that part. unfortunately the club keeps jon so busy that he doesn’t have time to participate in robb’s study group. ned notices that jon’s teachers tend to use robb as a metric for how well jon is doing, but he doesn’t say anything because he wants to get out of there and catch the end of the hockey game. anyway the only teacher who complains about jon is his gym teacher alliser thorne, who is actively petitioning for jon to be expelled. also the music teacher tells ned that jon has really taken to the harp. ned smiles and nods before going home and immediately pulling jon from the class.
all of sansa’s teachers gush about what a wonderful girl she is, how she’s a model student just like her brother robb, how bright her future is. her english teacher is especially impressed by sansa’s storytelling abilities, and she recommends her for the honors class next year. that being said, her teachers notice that sansa is a little quieter than robb was. he would always sit in the front row surrounded by his friends, but sansa mostly just sits by the window with jeyne and occasionally giggles a little too loudly during the lesson. but it’s fine because after class she and jeyne always hang around and ask a million questions that they forgot to ask before, so they’re clearly engaged even if they get a little distracted sometimes. overall it seems like sansa generally enjoys participating in class (although she certainly raises her hand less than robb did), but sometimes she takes feedback on her work a little too hard, which ends up shaking her confidence and makes her stop raising her hand for a few days. but then she gets another assignment back and goes back to normal once she’s reminded what a good student she is. at the end of the conference, one of sansa’s teachers winks at catelyn and tells her that she’s noticed some looks passing between sansa and joffrey baratheon during class, after which catelyn excuses herself and heads back to the parking lot.
well at least everybody can agree that arya is a bright kid. she has it in her to be a good student—if she would just learn to behave herself. and by behave herself, they mean that arya seems to be incapable of sitting still for long periods of time. her leg is always jittery or she’s fidgeting or biting her lip, which mrs. mordane calls “distracting.” she goes on to say that arya is a lot more talkative than sansa ever was, and that arya seems to enjoy scraping her knees at recess which sansa never did, and also that arya asks a lot of questions about the curriculum and why they’re learning this and what they need to know about that which sansa would never have done (ned is getting flashbacks to jon’s conference, but there’s still a chance of him getting home before the game ends, so he just smiles and nods). also apparently arya is always getting into trouble, like that one time she kicked a soccer ball at a fifth grader for pushing a kindergartener named weasel on the playground, or that time she talked back to a teacher after he made her friend lommy cry, or that time she hit joffrey baratheon with a stick for bothering some kid named mycah (after which cersei threatened to press charges against the school district and also arya). ned assumes that this incident is referring to a different joffrey baratheon and not the son of his childhood best friend as well as the kid who’s been staring at sansa during class. catelyn apologizes over and over again for arya’s behavior, wondering why her nine year old daughter is incapable of sitting still and silent for eight hours a day. she promises to have a talk with arya about her behavior (again), which reminds ned of similar conversations between his father and lyanna. he proceeds to disassociate. on the bright side, arya enjoys picking flowers during recess and giving them to her favorite teachers, which they appreciate. actually she’s probably one of the most social kids in the whole school and never has a problem making friends. she just goes up to some kid who’s sitting alone and starts asking them questions, which usually works out. oh also arya has been talking to some weird guy named jaqen who works in the cafeteria and only speaks in cryptic fragmented sentences, and nobody really know what that’s about except that she keeps showing up to school in masks from party city.
no notes. the sweetest child they’ve ever had the pleasure of teaching, just incredibly chill all around. he asks great questions and loves to laugh and everybody likes him. the only thing that his teachers find a bit strange is that bran seems to spend a lot of time sitting by this massive white tree by the playground. is he talking to it? probably not, but they can’t be sure. catelyn tries to play it off by assuring his teachers that it’s okay because bran talks to trees at home too. it doesn’t really help, although his teachers are slightly relieved to find out that it’s just a bran thing and not a school issue. kind of like how he used to climb the school walls because the monkey bars got too boring for him, and then they had to lure him back down with a box of skittles. now bran has taken to zooming through the playground and doing flips in his chair, which shouldn’t be physically possible but apparently it is. but other than that, he’s fine. probably the most well adjusted of the kids, which isn’t a high bar but still.
suspended again for biting.
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