#fluerette

@wanderingthroughbooks: This show is interesting in that it's like 80% cheesy, 5% aims to be serious, 5% beautiful scenery shots

@fluerette: whats the other 10%

Hullo, there! I actually don’t recall many details about the school system in the book, but luckily Maggie answered the question on her website:

“Like a lot of farming communities in Ye Olde Days, school in Thisby is secondary to scraping out a living, is very seasonal, is often done by parents, and is also done at age 16. There is no University of Skarmouth where you can major in Homicidal Horse Husbandry with a minor in Terse Expressions (though if there was, Sean Kendrick would be teaching.) So Sean and Puck are already well past school-age. Leaving them all their time to do productive things like risk their lives on dangerous animals and make questionable decisions.” [x]

Also, I assume Finn has finished with school too, since he’s old enough to bet on the races (the minimum age is either sixteen or seventeen, per Jonathan Carroll).

Firstly, yay for the reread!!!

Secondly, I guess “a capall uisce killed my dog” is a more legitimate excuse than “my dog ate my homework!” 

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