Ability for teens to dropout of school?

I agree that dropping out of school is a non-ideal option, but I'd like the ability to homeschool children and teens. It could be like "working from home" for adults, where they have to complete certain tasks during the day or whatever, but I think it'd - like real homeschooling - give them the ability to also skill build and do something constructive with their life rather than having the option to nap under bleachers during gym or deal with a bully throwing paper wads again. (In these things, the school mirrors a lot of public school experiences realistically, which I'm not sure is the greatest thing - yeah, you get to build emotional control, empathy, etc, but you also get to deal with teachers who can't competently handle bullying when your kid barfs in the hallway. :/ )

Honestly, I think itd be good to have. If only to have more negative consequences for sims. Not everything our sims do is supposed to be positive or something EA/Maxis encourages. Or if they can't do that, at least have some negative consequences for bad grades beyond the embarrassed moodlet.

Homeschooling would be a good school alternative option, though.

"Aussie_Simmer;c-13497349" wrote:
Mod? I don't think the developers would want to promote dropping out of school.

You're probably right but at same time if you play with auto aging turned of, then unless you use birthday cake or age up cheat. Many probably don't wanna have to rabbit hole school all through their game play either. Unless they cancel school and just eat up the hit on grades. But also deal with annoyance of having to do that everyday outside of weekends(where schools closed), I mean been a couple of players including streamers who done rags to riches type playthroughs never going to school, but playing as a homeless teen trying to make their way.

I don't really see the big issue with it, also would go as far as to call it promoting. Promoting usually mean you do something actively to create a situation to further something, plus don't really see reason why it has to be a sheltered thing. I mean school drop out exist and not everyone of become one necessarily end not turning things around for the better. Remember one youtuber who had a story like that ended getting a blue collar job and turning their life around ending respecting hard work to make a living.

Thought part of sims was idea of creating stories for your sims.

Agreed there. Give teens the option to join more careers and to drop out. Also, if they already have good grades, why make them stay? They could even set it up so you could have a graduation ceremony. Some geniuses go to college really young, too.

"Gamer_34567544;c-17956465" wrote:
Agreed there. Give teens the option to join more careers and to drop out. Also, if they already have good grades, why make them stay? They could even set it up so you could have a graduation ceremony. Some geniuses go to college really young, too.

Or instead of encouraging or promoting something thats kind of bad, they could just have a "Testing Out" option which allows the teen, if they have good grades to do exactly that and graduate early.

Use careers.retire highschool

"redrogue60;c-17956604" wrote:

"Gamer_34567544;c-17956465" wrote:
Agreed there. Give teens the option to join more careers and to drop out. Also, if they already have good grades, why make them stay? They could even set it up so you could have a graduation ceremony. Some geniuses go to college really young, too.

Or instead of encouraging or promoting something thats kind of bad, they could just have a "Testing Out" option which allows the teen, if they have good grades to do exactly that and graduate early.

Hmmm... I don't see it as encouraging the behaviour, it depends on how it's portrayed. Just a thought, but a lot more could go into this. A lack of grades could mean issues in other things later on (inability to go to college, issues finding a good-paying job, not being portrayed as intelligent, possibly seeking money through unethical means, special skill requirements for occupations, etc).

Wriggly was kicked out and sold newspapers. Then he became an entrepreneur and made a massive bubble gum company.

Kicked or dropped out, but either way, moved out at age 11 to sell newspapers.