i'm the director of education at the tpror tear kfrontier cultur museum. children would attend but it was irregular. it was 9:00 to 5:00 with a large break in between for lunch. they went home for lunch instead of eating here. it would have been outside the busiest times of a farmer's life. during the summer and the school calendar today follows that, was the slowest time in the school house but busiest time on the farm. then in late fall -- or beginning in fall and then through the spring was your busiest times in the school house. this was a school house that was geared towards farmers's kids of all ages. there was no grade system. children from maybe as young as 6 and 7 all the way up to the upper teenage years would attend throughout the year. the students were divided amongst each other, usually boys on one side and girls on the other. but throughout the day they would actually move around based on their skills. and they would be taught the basics of reading and writing, a arithmetic, probably a little bit of geography and history and things like that