How about making it possible to look into the huts (except the love shack) and the school?
And letting the kids actually go inside the school and when you click on the school you can see them sitting and learning and have a teacher stand in the front. That teacher can also be part of the village. The teaching could be a skill a villager gets and then he/she can teach at the school.
(villagers can like teaching and dislike it as well.)

When you click on the drum, the kids and the teacher go into the school building. Hmmm, but what if there are many teachers? Would be strange having 5 teachers in front of the class though. Or you click on the drum and the kids go to school and you drag a teacher onto the school building and he/she goes inside to teach.
Just some suggestions.