Does anyone else just delete schools?

Do you mean delete the school with no replacement? Or delete the school and homeschool the kids (mod needed)?

I play in mostly rabbithole-less worlds and educate my children and teens a bit differently. This method does require mods in order to work and a bit of strategic planning, but it works for my playstyle.

I don't have that mod, but the game plays smoothly now so I don't want to wreck it. I just turned the school into an indoor fair for the vampires, so they can enjoy the year-round festivities without fear of the sun.

There's always boarding school. I think if you delete the schools in the game the kids will all get in trouble and removed from the household.

@HillyBeth
If the town has no school for the children to go to, they will not get into trouble or get removed from the household. The only downfall is that they will not age up well, so you will not be able to choose their fourth trait when they age up to teen, or their fifth trait when they become young adults.

I find sims-kids are a lot like real kids; sometimes they can be a royal pain-in-the-bohunkus…
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"Oh...I see you met Felix" River said; a twinkle of merriment in her eyes.

"Felix?"Allan asked confused. "You named the monster, Felix?"

"He's not a bad monster, he just likes to hang out under the bed." she winked at her son.

Creator: Boy, that kid's going to need therapy.

"So you know he's there, Mommy?"

"Yup...he protects Mommy and Daddy from all the bad monsters. So you see, he's a good monster..."

Sending the little buggers to school, gets them out of your hair.
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And keeps you from wanting to do stuff to them that would result in them getting taken away by Social Services. ? (like putting up walls around them or lefting them swim to exhaustion. ?? Or oh, let’s say…losing them in the snow…?

My two RL oldest graduated and they’re fine. @Featherbelle and I raised ‘em well. ? Our youngest heads to high school next year.

Hmm, I've never tried that method before. Usually I just placed another school. Now that I think of it tho. I wonder if this method might improve game performance? Considering how game would lag when theres 50 odd kids all trying to get into the school at once.... This idea might bear further research.

Sometimes I delete them, especially when I am trying to make certain settings. (Castaway for example.) I don't mind school in 3 so much, but part of that is you can rid yourself of the obligation by deleting one building.

Looking at you, 4.

"texansky;c-18147630" wrote:

@HillyBeth
If the town has no school for the children to go to, they will not get into trouble or get removed from the household. The only downfall is that they will not age up well, so you will not be able to choose their fourth trait when they age up to teen, or their fifth trait when they become young adults.

Perfectly fine if aging is off. But, yeah, 4 is annoying. I grabbed the mod that let's kids not have to go to school as I want my teen character in the story.

I have deleted schools from every game I have ever played, from the very beginning and have never had my kids removed or be bad. My kids do not go to school because I want to play with them. I let them learn skills. I have never had any problems and only fun with them. My kids or game has never, never, never had any ill effects. I will continue not to send my kids to school in every game I play. I have been playing from sims 1 over 12 yrs and not one has ever gone to school. Have fun with your kids, I do. One reason I do not like Sims 4, as I cannot delete schools. and I do not or have ever used any mods.

"Evalen;c-18148144" wrote:
I have deleted schools from every game I have ever played, from the very beginning and have never had my kids removed or be bad. My kids do not go to school because I want to play with them. I let them learn skills. I have never had any problems and only fun with them. My kids or game has never, never, never had any ill effects. I will continue not to send my kids to school in every game I play. I have been playing from sims 1 over 12 yrs and not one has ever gone to school. Have fun with your kids, I do. One reason I do not like Sims 4, and I do not or have ever used any mods.

No offense to EA, but don't get Sims 4 if you don't have it yet. It's not all that it's cracked up to be.