"pangaea67;c-13497378" wrote:
It could only allowed under specific circumstances e.g. "earn 3200 simoleans in three days." Even in real life, quitting school could be done for positive reasons like if they are needed to be earn money for the household or if they want to focus on a successful business they have started. As is there seems to be no major consequences for simply not going to high school. But again 3200 simoleans requirement would make sure it is only done to support the household or work on building a successful work from home business, to start early accumulating wealth. Creating a GED programme or something could also work well for those who wish to go back to school (quit or did poorly before) to pursue a career path, but we might be getting too complicated there.
I don't think I'd call that positive. I tutored for the HiSET program (what my state takes instead of the GED) for many years, and very rarely was dropping out a net positive for their lives. Sometimes their family needed money, but dropping out was almost never an ideal situation. The only exception was cases of extreme bullying, as in the case of my trans brother-in-law, where pulling out of school was better, but still not really a positive. Like you said, the sims struggles to mirror realism at this level, so it's probably better off left to mods, lol. I remember that for TS2 there was a version of inteen that would allow your teenager to drop out if she became pregnant. I have no idea if something like that exists for TS4.
