sentences:  In 1965, a new school built to an ample design opened in the village’s north end, but it was only used as a school for all Konken’s children until 1972, for the new policy of centralizing schools was coming into effect.Hauptschule students were now to attend school in Herschweiler-Pettersheim, although later they had to go to the Roßberg in Kusel.Today, the Konken schoolhouse teaches primary school pupils from Konken itself and from the neighbouring villages of Albessen, Ehweiler, Herchweiler and Selchenbach.