Of the pupils
Art. 4. Children of both sexes will be admitted to the schools from the age of six to that of fourteen, but when they reach the latter age they shall cease to attend them.
Children shall attend school with clean faces, hands, and clothing, and shall not be received without fulfilling that requirement.
Art. 5. Children who suffer from any contagious disease shall not be admitted. As soon as the teacher shall observe any disease in anyone he shall advise his parents or guardians so that they may cease to send him to school until he is completely cured.
Art. 6. Every child who arrives at the school after the beginning of the class, without satisfactorily explaining the reason for his tardiness, shall be punished in proportion to the lateness of his arrival.
When any child is frequently absent from school, without his guardians giving the reason therefor, the teacher shall call it to the attention of such guardians, and if such child continues to be absent in the same manner, the teacher shall inform the religious or parish priest thereof.
Art. 7. Pay children shall meet their fees for the entire month, whatever be the day of their entrance and departure from the school.
Of school days and hours
Art. 8. School days shall be all those of the year except the following: 1—Sundays, and feast days marked in the calendar with two or three crosses; 2—All-Souls’ day; 3—from Christmas until the day after Epiphany; 4—Ash Wednesday; 5—the six days of Holy Week; 6—the day of St. Joseph of Calasanz;[41] 7—the saint’s day and the birthday anniversaries of their Majesties, the king and queen, and of his royal Highness, the prince of Asturias; 8—the feast day of the village; 9—the saint’s day of the superior civil governor and of the bishop of the diocese.
Art. 9. Classes shall begin every season at seven in the morning, and shall conclude at ten; and in the afternoon they shall begin at half-past two, and end at five.