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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 30, 2009 14:09:15 GMT -5
I wonder how they were divided in classrooms.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 30, 2009 21:24:05 GMT -5
^ That would be interesting to know. It seems like for every grade at SES there are an "A" class and a "B" class. Not based on anything (that we know of anyway) just a way of dividing the kids. They are the oldest charges, huh? Other than Sean Addison and Tiffany Kilbourne's backward aging, but she goes to SDS anyway. I was trying to think of other 5th graders and who there teachers were...well lol we know about M(r)s. Besser Was the teacher that Mal referred to having a semi-crush on in "Mallory on Strike" from her 5th grade year?
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Post by courtky10 on Oct 14, 2009 9:09:42 GMT -5
We know from M #34 that Byron wasn't in the same class as Adam and Jordan (he was mentioned to be in Tom Cates' class, but Adam and Jordan weren't), and we know from #44 that none of the triplets were in the same class as Jeff was when he attended SES (he had Mrs. Besser). Is there any reference to any approximate # of teachers per grade in any of the books? For some reason I was thinking 3, but I'm not sure if that was just my thinking or if it was actually mentioned. If it was, though, then Adam and Jordan were in the same class!
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 14, 2009 18:47:30 GMT -5
^There must be some sort of inconsistency in the writing. Three teachers per grade sounds like a super huge school.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 14, 2009 19:05:41 GMT -5
My elementary school seemed pretty small to me, and we had three teachers per grade.
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Post by courtky10 on Oct 14, 2009 19:06:16 GMT -5
^^Hm.... my old elementary school had 5 teachers per grade so I always just assumed that was normal, but maybe it WAS considered big? I do think there was an inconsistency, though, because M #5 said all three triplets were in the same class (they were working on a class project together), but in M #34, Byron was suddenly in a separate classroom. The ghostwriters can never make up their minds.
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Post by anzuhana on Jun 21, 2010 15:30:11 GMT -5
I like them. At times, I think that they're brats and obnoxious but I can understand why they be that way. After all, they're 10.
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Post by digigirl02 on Jun 27, 2010 17:32:54 GMT -5
I like them. At times, I think that they're brats and obnoxious but I can understand why they be that way. After all, they're 10. So true, they just act like normal 10 year old boys. And while Mallory and Jessi were a year older then them, they acted more like 14 then 11.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2010 2:48:16 GMT -5
The ghostwriters can never make up their minds. At the risk of sounding like an idiot, there are ghost writers? I have one of my books here and Ann M. Martin does the end notes? Also So true, they just act like normal 10 year old boys. And while Mallory and Jessi were a year older then them, they acted more like 14 then 11. i definately agree with you there. That's the reason i don't like Jessi or mallory
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 1, 2010 21:48:55 GMT -5
Mal and Jessi act so old that I sometimes forget they're two years younger than the others!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2010 22:27:23 GMT -5
I was watching the movie last night, and they LOOK like 11 year olds, but in the books they look so much older. it's strange
But when i see Stacey, Claudia, Dawn and Mary-Anne, they look so much older than 13 too! Kristy is the only one who looks her age in the elder girls....if that makes sense
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Post by candykane on Apr 5, 2011 12:52:51 GMT -5
I was thinking about how it might have been more interesting for one of the Pike triplets to have been a girl. Or maybe even two girls and one boy. What do you think Mallory's relationship would have been like with a female sibling only one year younger? Would they be close? Would she view herself as much, much older and more mature, the same as she did with the triplets?
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Post by zoar3 on Apr 5, 2011 19:57:33 GMT -5
^Interesting idea, Candykane. I liked that they were 3 boys. It was just too bad they had little individual characters as the series progressed. I think if at least one had been a girl, if nothing else, that would have made all of them question Mal's "authority" more. I've said this many times but wish Mallory and Vanessa had had more interactions. I loved their bedtime chat in Mystery Diary. Back to the triplets, maybe if there had been a bigger age discrepancy between them and Mal, that could have lent itself to V and M being closer, too.
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Post by u4me on Apr 5, 2011 20:15:20 GMT -5
I've never thought about what it would be like if the one of the triplets had been a girl. I'm sure she would have been treated like poor Nicky!
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Post by zoar3 on Apr 5, 2011 22:34:21 GMT -5
^Because she'd be a girl versus two boys she might have even been treated worse than Nicky. :/
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