Sorry I'm late to this hype train! I would LOVE an education themed pack.
I love the idea of customisable active schools, yes please! I like the idea of having themed schools too, so you might have a sports school or a business school. I'd like to have a more customised, individual education experience for my teens and have them meet other teens with similar interests and background. Talking of backgrounds, it'd be nice to have options to create state or fee-paying schools, and day or boarding schools.
I do wish that the school week was less generic. I wish I could have my teen specialise in a certain subject group 'performing arts' , 'creative' , 'sports', 'business and technology', etc. And then instead of having that pointless homework book to do every... single... day... we'd get actual homework tasks that compliment our Sims' personalities. My wannabe journalist might take 'communications', for example and work on their charisma and writing skills. The current school gameplay bores me to tears.
You could set it to only allow certain occults too, 'Alien school' or 'Vampire school'.
I would love after school activities! I like scouting so more of that sort of thing would be great.
I really liked the private school of TS2 and I liked impressing the headmaster, I found it to be an entertaining challenge and I mastered it after a while! I liked that they wore a uniform and that they returned each day. I preferred it to the boarding school from TS3 because I wanted to
play with my kids, not just pack them away for weeks! I like the idea that attending private school will give you meaty scholarships and maybe some helpful connections later in life. Maybe you have to keep your grades up here because you are representing the school (as opposed to home schooling, see below) but if you are a Nathan Prescott type character you might be able to 'buy' good grades and stay in school even if you are lazy and obnoxious.
I would LOVE a home schooling option but I'm less keen on having it only for 'B' grade and above. Here in the UK some parents choose to pull their kids out of school if they feel like a disability isn't being properly supported, if their child is being bullied or if they have social difficulties. So you might find a child who has a 'D' grade at school could raise their grade to an 'A' with one-on-one tutoring at home. At least that's how I'd want to play it so I wouldn't like that minimum grade. I see your thinking on that though.
I think home schooling would be great for history players too, definitely a very useful feature!
I would LOVE active proms and graduations! I was SO annoyed by TS3 Generations because I was expecting to see those events happening and they were just rabbithole events. I was really disappointed by that. So having active schools would allow for things like that to happen properly! My Sims need that first kiss on the dance floor moment! It feels weird that in a life simulation game they are missing these rites of passage.
I like Movotti's idea of being able to customise school events as well.
YES! to laptops!
I also really need University back, I can't age up any of my teens until we get it so my game is in stasis! So a general education pack would be ideal.
I'd also like an education career, maybe with a track where you can do a PHD over time and become a Professor (my life goal is to grow up and become Mary Beard).
Not too keen on 'school
dayz' because it's a bit 'Hi fellow kids' but maybe 'school daze' or just plain old 'Education'?
"SimsIslandheart;c-16662507" wrote:
Love these ideas! This is definitely what I was thinking about when I replied to the thread about allowing teens to drop out of school - there are so many more options for education today, I would like to see them incorporated in The Sims as well.
I would like that option too. A couple of my teens would definitely drop out and it would help me tell their stories. I have one teen who is in foster care and he's getting into all sorts of criminal activity. He's really REALLY smart though and he gets bored of school and can't follow the rules. So I would have him drop out. But he's actually a pretty determined character, he just likes to do things his own way, and I would have him be successful in other things. He owned an electronics shop in TS3.
So yeah, it'd be great for storytelling and character building. I would like education choices to have a real impact on Sims though. So if you go to a private fee-paying school you are going to have much more support in later life. But if you drop out of school maybe it's harder to get a job and you get paid less. But maybe my teenager above might decide he wants to go to Uni as an adult and study technology, he'd have to enrol on a basic skills course first and pass that before he can apply to uni. Maybe passing the skills test will get him into Uni but he'll have to pay full fees. So it's harder but still possible!
It's like... if you put in the hard work and effort when you're a teen, you have an easier adult life (because you'd have had to work hard to maintain those expected grades). But if you have an easy life as a teen, hanging out with your friends and avoiding homework, you will have a tougher adult life. So the choices you make have an actual impact.
