My Nursery School is relatively new and I'd like very much to hear others' experiences.

1. Does having more than one teacher in the school increase kids' skill acquisition? Would 3 be even better?

2. Do the kids' skills actually increase? I've given them great triple-master teachers but I don't see the kids' skills increasing at all.

Incidentally I love it that they can go to school while still nursing - but again, I see no skill increases.

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The nursery puzzle is referred to, in the forum, as Puzzle #9: Questions about Puzzle #9 are posted here.
One you get there, please take time and read post #1 by Gamemastr1.

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Since the puzzle thread doesn't address CNM's questions, I see no reason why we shouldn't discuss it here.

Although I'm not entirely certain that more than one teacher will give the kids more skill (most likely not, since they tend to follow one teacher at a time), I usually have two teachers set up to teach. But I don't have them in there at the same time. Sometimes they both go there at the same, but this is the game's doing, not mine. So I try to have peeps with a lot of skill working the nursery, as well as, or including any experienced elderly.

The more skilled the teacher is, the more the kids' skills will increase. It doesn't raise anywhere near as fast as the 14+ year olds, but it does increase. So hang in there and watch and wait, and you'll see it.

Yes! Some of the youngsters have definitely increased their Research skill by attending the school. Seems I was just impatient. Folks, the Nursery School does really work.

I just finally built the Nursery School, and I was wondering if you'd noticed whether or not they teach while the game is off?

If you click on the various children while they are in school, it will tell you what subject they are studying.

Yes they do teach while the game is off. You see more progress with a scholar as a teacher and less, it seems, when they become "elderly". I have had plenty of apprentices by the age of 14 but unfortunately unlike previous VV games they don't seem to be able to start work on their own volition when they reach 14 even if they have trainee status. I have only had one villager that did and he liked "work"

I noticed the same thing; although a few did more did start work on their own than yours, I didn't notice if they liked work and I expect I would have. The great majority, though, needed to be dropped in the appropriate place for them to be kick-started - usually they'd succeed in the task first time and then carry on without supervision.

How do you get a teacher? I had one once, but am not sure what was so special about him--now, none of them seem to have enough skills to teach. What do they need?