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Chi5678's avatar
5 years ago

Sim children skipping school?

I'm starting a save where i have a household with a bunchhh of children and i dont want them to get interrupted by needing to go to school (they won't be able to leave anyways) can i bulldoze the school lot safely? or will it not interrupt them if they dont have access to leave? ty in advance!

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  • I have gotten rid of schools for this reason, as well as have never placed schools in the worlds that I have created for the same purpose. They functioned perfectly fine from what I remember.
  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    5 years ago
    Or you could give them a week or more days off from school by using the NRaas Master Controller mod, like discussed here: https://www.nraas.net/community/chatterbox/topic3858

    That works great, and you can keep the school.
  • Apologies to those who have heard this rant before.

    In a world with no schools, there is no education requirement. That doesn't break the game in any technical way, but it does mean that the next generation will grow up stoopid and unfit to function in society. They collectively will not learn the value of senseless conformity, how to deal with incompetents in positions of authority, the smarter ones won't be dumbed down and have the chance to have their socks bored off by the under-reaching standard teaching curriculum because nobody likes a know-it-all, how to survive being being bossed around by cliques (or do the bossing, depending on traits), and how to get through the day on a barely edible school lunch. All just like schools in real life, from what I remember of them. >:) :p

    Another option though, more seriously, is homeschooling by way of the NRaas Careers mod and its custom Schools module. :)
  • If there are no schools, can you still choose their traits when they age up?
  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    5 years ago
    "igazor;c-17665201" wrote:
    Another option though, more seriously, is homeschooling by way of the NRaas Careers mod and its custom Schools module. :)


    That's a good option. But the kids must still do their homework then, right? I gave my children a 50 days leave from school, so we had time to have fun during summer (and pandemic), and play with poses. :smile:
  • Or you can have your Simparents read this book and teach them the "Asian Method" of dealing with recalcitrant children skipping school.
    https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MaDLfDBMQ8c/XWyMvKYuLoI/AAAAAAAAfN4/KKTm2sQsv9A7fBlGpU0R2Ah1fNLE6-X4gCLcBGAs/s1600/CBT%2B%25289%2529.png
    Or the quick video by Russell Peters.
    Spoiler
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA7-tAGO0mQ

    So..."Not gonna go to school, huh? C'mere...ya little runt". ZAP!!!! "NO DAD!!! NO!!!!" "THEN GET YOUR TAIL-END TO SCHOOL!!!!"
  • "IreneSwift;c-17665736" wrote:
    If there are no schools, can you still choose their traits when they age up?

    Well, having good grades won't help the scoring if there are no grades but having mediocre or poor grades can't hurt them either. I'm not sure if the trait choosing thing even happens if there are no schools. MasterController can help fix that, of course.


    "Cororon;c-17665864" wrote:
    "igazor;c-17665201" wrote:
    Another option though, more seriously, is homeschooling by way of the NRaas Careers mod and its custom Schools module. :)

    That's a good option. But the kids must still do their homework then, right? I gave my children a 50 days leave from school, so we had time to have fun during summer (and pandemic), and play with poses. :smile:

    Yes, there is a daily homework requirement with homeschooling. But sims don't have to do it, they would just fail otherwise. The point would be to keep the education system in place, then it's up to the player for their actively controlled household as to how they want to work with it and up to story progression, whichever kind the player uses, as to what the rest of the world does.
  • "igazor;c-17665201" wrote:
    Apologies to those who have heard this rant before.

    In a world with no schools, there is no education requirement. That doesn't break the game in any technical way, but it does mean that the next generation will grow up stoopid and unfit to function in society. They collectively will not learn the value of senseless conformity, how to deal with incompetents in positions of authority, the smarter ones won't be dumbed down and have the chance to have their socks bored off by the under-reaching standard teaching curriculum because nobody likes a know-it-all, how to survive being being bossed around by cliques (or do the bossing, depending on traits), and how to get through the day on a barely edible school lunch. All just like schools in real life, from what I remember of them. >:) :p

    Another option though, more seriously, is homeschooling by way of the NRaas Careers mod and its custom Schools module. :)


    :D honestly im okay with them growing up with lack of education. I saw a you tuber make 104 children live in an underground bunker until they reach elder age with full free will providing them with everything they need in such bunker to live and learn skills. He did it on sims 4 and a lot of them just leveled up on the bowling skill :D I'm trying it with 38 children on sims 3, but its not as funny as the video i watched. most of them just set down their food to complain that theyre hungry or will complain that they have to go to the bathroom just outside the stall.. its only been a couple sim days though, we'll see what happens as they age up. they get released when they reach elder age.

    for some of the 38 children i abducted the children from SV neighborhood, who seem to be the smartest of the bunch. Bella Bachelor went to the bathroom and ate before everyone else. It's funny though the ones who have family outside the lot, their families will call and invite them over, of course they say no though xD "No mom i'm not coming home, the ladder disappeared.."
  • (sighs) The more I try to help players through their game questions over the years, the happier I get that (as far as I know) none of you live next door or anywhere near me. :p
  • "igazor;c-17668682" wrote:
    (sighs) The more I try to help players through their game questions over the years, the happier I get that (as far as I know) none of you live next door or anywhere near me. :p


    :D :D i still appreciate your help though, hehe! you helped me forever ago not to shift-click and delete sims anymore xD

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