Get to School: All your ideas here!

I'd want to participate in different classes, choose electives for my sims, and earn traits from getting good grades in them. I could see each class requiring different activities to be completed like an active career: during PE you need to jog, excersise, etc. to increase your sims grade or you can slack off and avoid the gym teacher but your class performance would suffer. When your sims graduate they'd get useful traits from any class they have an A in.

For objects, a running track would be neat especially if sims could race each other. And lockers for sims to interact with would be awesome: store objects from their inventory, decorate with pictures, leave secret notes, or get shoved into by the school bully!

And some NPC roles like School Bully, Cheerleader, Mascot, Principle, Librarian, Hall Monitor, Prefect, etc. for your sims to meet (or try to avoid) could make going to school A LOT more interesting!!

Also I love the ideas of orphanages and dances/events!!

I'd like it if a home schooling option was included. No having to worry about getting your kids to school on time...no having to deal with homework..no having to cut your vacation short just so your kids can make it to school on time. With home schooling,you can teach the kids whenever you want to.

In a Get To School expansion, I would like to see:

-- An "active" teacher career, you can be an elementary or high school teacher, or a college professor. I would really like to see schools that we can build and view in the neighborhood, but if they have to be hidden lots like the hospitals and science warehouses I understand. Grudgingly. I expect to be able to see neighborhood kids etc though, don't waste my time spawning ugly badly dressed townie kids to whom I am not attached.

-- An added option for "Active" elementary and high schools (just like active careers, where you can follow one child or teen to class at a time).
The current school rabbitholes could be considered default public schools; the "active" schools could be considered private schools and your sim parents would have to enroll their children and teens in a private/active school before they could attend.
I have no preference one way or another as to whether the "impress the headmaster" scenario/event should return with it.

-- A new option for Home School, where kids do extra homework daily, assorted group projects, and Study Groups could be a thing.

-- Night school for the adult sim with a day job, online classes for the shop owner.

-- The addition of universities/colleges for the young adult through elder ages. Adults and elders can go back to school for degrees to jump several promotions in their chosen field. Sims can learn new skills faster in a skill-dedicated classroom.


-- It's silly, but if they could add the option to turn on/off a summer vacation option, that would be a nice touch.

-- Fun skill-based flavor classes like woodshop!
* I'd like to see new stuff added to the woodworking table, entire furniture sets, and multiple wood color/stain/paint options!
* Classes that teach sims how to cook, and cooking tests that you would have to complete by making a certain quality of food.
* Perhaps adding new skills like sewing/knitting new clothes, that you can only learn through an active or online course?

-- Campus-held skill competitions would be fun, with appropriate new prizes for the winners.

-- Perhaps cars could make a comeback via an autobody class that teaches you how to rebuild or fix cars. School buses could return to pick up kids and teens, cars and garage door become available to buy in build/buy mode, and Mechanic could be another new active career.

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-- Certain events would be fun to see, like elementary, high school, or college graduations, prom or homecoming parties, etc. It might be fun to follow sim parents to the school play, or a bake-off/fundraiser.

-- Can we get scout cookies set up for sale in front of various venues?

Some sort of trade school or combined crafts and fine arts school (like Bauhaus) would be fun to embellish... where your sims could learn to create pottery/ceramics, furniture design, fabric/tapestry/weaving design, architecture, stained glass windows/mosaic floors/glass blowing, interior design, fashion, and etc.

I definitely think every age should get something new:
Toddlers - interactive daycare including new daycare career
Children - more after school activities such as ballet / sports / music.
Teens - similar to TS3 generations add prom and graduation back along with after school activities listed above.
Both also could have the option of private school that cost simoleans every week.
Young adult - college/ university not only big universities but also community colleges
I also love some of the ideas above such as home schooling and night school
I’m sure this has been mentioned to but maybe as a little bonus a retirement home for elders there just so forgettable

*bookmarking*

I love all of these ideas. It would be so perfect for my gameplay style.

Great ideas !! I really want to go to high school with my teen sims and have teacher as an active career. And having an actual school building would be nice !! They could add a world like in get to work with an elementary school, a high school and a university.

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@ListentoToppDogg Me too! I am so excited for this content! :D

I want Daycare/Preschool for the toddlers they can go half a day or send them when parents go to work or call a nanny or a baby sitter on the weekend.
Elementary school for child age they do homework go on frequent feild trips but no signed permission slip go on. After school activities like karate, dance, or pick plants and bugs for school assignments.
Middle School/Jr High for Preteens a little more homework not as much feild trips then the children but they do get school dances like Halloween dance, Winter fest. Dance, Spring Fling Dance, After school activities like baseball, basketball, dance, cheerleading or drill teams.
Highschool for teens study for college, something like the SAT or the ACT get scholarships like an Athletic scholarship music scholarship, so on. Homework should be look up something like an essay or write a term paper have years like freshman year sophomore year etc...