The one-room schoolhouse in Miradero is where Snips and his classmates attend school. The school board accepted a new teacher. The New Teacher only teaches until the eighth grade. The new teacher is sometimes hard on Snips.
The schoolhouse is near the southern outskirts of town, just south of Mr. Granger's barn and its round fenced-in horse pens. Hung on the outside near the front door, the schoolhouse has a bell that is rung to announce the start of the school day.
The schoolhouse actually has two rooms: a single classroom and, at the front entrance, a cloakroom with a hanging light fixture.
The schoolhouse is well-appointed with eleven student desks and chairs, a large table with chairs at the back of the classroom, a teacher's desk and chair, five books helves, a movable blackboard, a piano, a clock, a wood-burning cooking stove, two identical zoological classification posters, a frame of pinned butterflies, a world map, a globe, a lectern, a Student of the Month plaque, and various other wall art.[1]
The school day starts at 8:00 a.m.[1][2] and ends at 2:00 p.m.[3]
Children only aged 6-9 study at Miradero.
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Non-School Uses[]
The schoolhouse's rafters served as the hiding place for the stuffed crows in Turo's midnight Harvest Hunt.[4]
Town meetings are sometimes held in the schoolhouse, including one to announce an incoming blizzard and the possible outbreak of frontier flu. However, the school bell is not rung to announce such meetings; instead, the church bell is rung, because it is larger and carries for miles.[5]