School in Ukraine

It is likely that when they were younger Andrzej Kaszucki and his two brothers (my 3rd great grandfather) attended school in Uhniv (now in the Ukraine) before they moved to Tomaszow Lubelskie as young adults. School in Uhniv is documented back as far as 1470. Sigismond from Radzanov, the proprietor of the city started a Roman Catholic school. It had three grades for boys only. It appears that children entered school at age 6 or 7. Religion was taught by the priests of the Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic rites. The Kaszucki family was Greek Catholic and Fedora and Theodore Kaszucki may have attended somewhere between 1797 and 1803. At about the point that Andrzej Kaszucki (my 3rd great grandfather) would have been entering school, it was Polish in nature until 1804 when the Ukrainians of Uhniv wanted it to become Ukrainian. At that point, administration was shared by the city and Roman Catholic administration. The transition wasn’t completed until the 1850s when it became a Greek Catholic school since Greek Catholics at that point were the majority in the city. The Roman Catholic pastor was able to establish a girl’s school at this point. http://www.remer.org/genealogy/memorial_book/historical_summary_hivniv.html Stepan Bozhyk: "History of Schools in Uhniv" A local couple, Stepan and Pelagia Zhukovsky made their fortune in cattle and lumber and a local priest suggested they donate to education, the church and the poor. In 1872, they created a dormitory for “Ruthenian Students” which had two large halls and living quarters for the administrator. It was designed for the boys of Uhniv, especially the relatives of Stepan and Pelagia who were childless. The third and fourth grade boys lived in one hall and education, meetings, choir rehearsals etc. took place in the other. Besides their lessons, they worked on church singing and the reading of the Cyrillic alphabet. Students who went to a high school got a scholarship of 120 kromen for each of their four years. Andrzej, Fidory & Theodore Kaszucki were in Tomaszow Lubelski by this point. It is possible they had siblings that stayed in the area and benefitted from this. https://www.historiaregionu.org/uhnow Theodore Reshetylo "Welfare Foundations in Uhniv"