Talk:Crystal Prep Academy/@comment-10390252-20170116130617

My Headcanon:

Crystal Prep was founded by Cadance's great-grandfather but her grandmother was sidelined by an ambitious teacher named Mr Sombra who persuaded the Board of Trustees to appoint him Principal after the death of Cadance's great-grandfather under suspicious circumstances. Cinch was Sombra's aide and was personally chosen by him to succeed him (there was never any indication of impropriety; he simply chose a brilliant administrator and educator with a similar attitude to what the school should be to him).

Because of the the terms of its founding charter, one of the family needs to have some management position at the school. However, Cadance, like her father, has been trapped in the mostly-powerless position of Dean (which has been reduced to being a glorified student counsellor). However, with Cinch's humiliation at the Friendship Games and the Shadowbolts spreading toxic (but true, if exaggerated) gossip about her role in Crystal Prep's defeat in all but name, Cadance has found herself having a far more prominent role. The teachers and students just simply feel that she is more reliable a leading figure than Cinch, who is increasingly being seen as fading and eccentric with her blathering on about 'magic' and her indulgence of the disruptive and possibly sociopathic sociology teacher, Starlight Glimmer.

I have no doubt that 2017's special episodes will likely turn some of this into a fan-fiction but it's how I see the school's history and present status right now.