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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#46526: Jun 12th 2017 at 7:28:01 PM

[up][up] Same thing goes for Yang's "friends" from Volume 1.

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#46527: Jun 12th 2017 at 9:16:18 PM

Something weirder is the idea of Qrow being a teacher consider a) he is drunk all the time and B) is semblence giving bad luck to anyone, I mean...how that work?

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#46528: Jun 12th 2017 at 11:55:49 PM

[up]Uh.......Wow, how does that work? You got me stumped.

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#46529: Jun 13th 2017 at 2:34:01 AM

Presumably he's never quite drunk enough.

Plus, he may be teaching something less dangerous than, say, combat classes. World history or theories on Grimm seem plausible.

Vampireandthen In love with an Uptown Girl from Northern Ireland Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: A teenager in love
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#46530: Jun 13th 2017 at 3:11:31 AM

But he taught Ruby how to use her scythe, right?

So, maybe he had Tai watching the whole thing?

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KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#46531: Jun 13th 2017 at 3:45:53 AM

[up] That was implied to be not part of his standard teaching load.

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#46532: Jun 13th 2017 at 3:52:21 AM

Maybe he used hologram technology or was a correspondence teacher or since he has been described as being constantly away on missions for Ozpin perhaps he only taught special classes for Signal.

edited 13th Jun '17 3:53:00 AM by Shaoken

Sereg Since: Jun, 2010
#46533: Jun 13th 2017 at 4:23:39 AM

Why are you assuming Signal isn't in Vale? Patch has been implied to be small and very close to Vale. Even if Signal is in Patch, again, Vale is close and big. People travel fro the town to the city all the time.

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#46534: Jun 13th 2017 at 4:54:53 AM

We know that Signal is in Patch or close enough for Tai to regularly attend. The point I was making is that Qrow said he was constantly away for long stretches at a time doing missions for Ozpin, which would make it hard for him to be a teacher at Signal at the same time on top of him being a bad luck charm.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#46535: Jun 13th 2017 at 5:19:15 AM

wild mass guess Alcohol/inebriation weakens the strength of a person's Semblance. Qrow taught Ruby while drunk, taught children while drunk, and did his secret-agenting while drunk.

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#46536: Jun 13th 2017 at 6:07:06 AM

Adding to the "why was Ruby in Vale" thing, all of Team RWBY are first-years at Beacon, right? So it's weird that it's implied that Yang already has a group of friends that she'd rather hang out with than her dorky little sister. I suppose it's possible that they're classmates from Signal, but then presumably Ruby would have known them too, yeah?

Actually, do we know what age people usually enroll in feeder schools like Signal? And for that matter, have we heard of more than one per kingdom? If there's literally just one for each academy, then it seems weird that they'd be separate in the first place.

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WillDeRegio Since: Jan, 2015
#46537: Jun 13th 2017 at 6:14:42 AM

[up][up]Ahem tongue

Perhaps there's a designated Butt-Monkey teacher's aid. Or the amount of bad luck is spread out over an entire class.

edited 13th Jun '17 6:16:15 AM by WillDeRegio

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#46538: Jun 13th 2017 at 6:23:43 AM

[up][up]Ruby commented in the second episode that she didn't get to bring her friends from Signal to Yang so that'd be confirmation.

I think a World of Remenant mentions that there are plenty of smaller places like Signal, but I could be thinking of something else entirely. I'd guess since Ozpin mentioned in his chat with Blake that most students go to other chooks to qualify for Beacon so that'd be confirmation that there are multiple ones per Kingdom.

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#46539: Jun 13th 2017 at 7:52:00 AM

Now I'm wondering what a standard Hunter education looks like. Is it normal for people to go to a feeder school to learn the basics and then go do something else instead of moving on to the academy? They're already using crazy custom-built weapons at the lower schools, which I don't think we've seen anyone but Hunters and trainee-Hunters use... (well, except for antagonists).

edited 13th Jun '17 7:58:37 AM by NativeJovian

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#46540: Jun 13th 2017 at 10:07:32 AM

Assuming Signal is just a combat school, I think the implication is that there are a lot of them, and that most people at Beacon (and presumably the others) graduate from one before moving up to huntsmen academies.

Though, Yang already having a group of friends struck me as odd as well.

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#46541: Jun 13th 2017 at 11:01:57 AM

I think I've heard that Crescent Rose isn't really a standard thing for pre-Hunter academies, but Ruby custom made it.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#46542: Jun 13th 2017 at 11:03:58 AM

Ruby also told Juane that all Signal students design their own weapons

edited 13th Jun '17 11:04:10 AM by sgamer82

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#46543: Jun 13th 2017 at 2:54:04 PM

a feeder school

where do you live that people refer to grade schools as something that implies graduates are being fed to some kind of horrific monster

...-one Google Search later-... Blasted British colloquialisms, screwin with me once again!

Now I'm wondering what a standard Hunter education looks like. Is it normal for people to go to a feeder school to learn the basics and then go do something else instead of moving on to the academy? They're already using crazy custom-built weapons at the lower schools, which I don't think we've seen anyone but Hunters and trainee-Hunters use... (well, except for antagonists).

Lower schools appear to be the basics, academies like Beacon are the graduate studies, internships, and actual field experience. (Except when you're Jaune and you cheat your way into college.) We have literally no other information and probably won't until Volume 5.

edited 13th Jun '17 2:58:21 PM by Soble

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DeanCole Since: Jun, 2015
#46544: Jun 13th 2017 at 5:50:07 PM

On Qrows teaching.

Well his semblance doesn't interfere with a students actual level of skill.It just makes things inconvenient for them.So it doesn't totally make him unsuitable for teaching. It just means that students have to be extra careful in his classes. Which may actually be a good thing.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#46545: Jun 13th 2017 at 6:04:38 PM

I was thinking that Qrow only took a short term teaching position for exactly that reason. Or only teaches in spurts.

I also wondered if he ever taught so long he ended up jinxing the position for all who came after.

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#46546: Jun 13th 2017 at 8:55:42 PM

All the people questioning teaching credentials would probably enjoy the podcast Witch Please, wherein two professors constantly question the credentials of the literally insane professors of Hogwarts

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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#46547: Jun 14th 2017 at 1:45:15 PM

[up]I come from a family of teachers. They had an awful lot to say about the teachers of Hogwarts.

Then again, I had a lot to say, too. But that's for a different thread.

edited 14th Jun '17 1:48:28 PM by Wyldchyld

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#46548: Jun 14th 2017 at 1:48:09 PM

[up] I think the Film Theorists channel on Youtube once compared Hogwarts against the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

If memory serves Xavier's won.

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#46549: Jun 14th 2017 at 1:50:53 PM

They should have added Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches to that list.

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Thelastwarrior Since: Jun, 2017
#46550: Jun 14th 2017 at 2:01:16 PM

I was thinking that Qrow only took a short term teaching position for exactly that reason. Or only teaches in spurts. I also wondered if he ever taught so long he ended up jinxing the position for all who came after.

Qrow is actually Voldemortwild mass guess


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