Teen High School Ideas

"SimAlexandria;c-17518707" wrote:

"Movotti;c-17516767" wrote:

"SimAlexandria;c-17516164" wrote:

"Rhiannonraven;c-17516150" wrote:

"SimAlexandria;c-17516069" wrote:
A functioning high school is what I really would like, that we could follow kids to class or actively play as a teacher (both optional of course).
Even more than that I'd want the same thing Primary school for kids

And the feature I want most is homeschooling haha!
I'm in Canada and I had 3 high school years (10-12)and 2 middle school years (grade 8-9)(and 8 elementary school years (K-7).

HOnestly I'd love to see the teen life stage divided so we have preteens. Kids that can have a first crush/date but can't woohoo. Kids that can babysit, but only for younger siblings. Kids that get a paper route (that's still a thing where I live and everyone gets a free weekly newspaper here as well as the option to opt into paid ones). Kids that go to middle school, not high school etc.

I want subject homework and doing it raises skills in those subjects. Maybe even a tie in to uni scholarships (get an A in Math you can get a math based scholarship or something)

Field trips would be great!

Really love your ideas! One little thought I had, though was that pre teen babysitting should not only be for younger siblings. I had six babysitting jobs/week when I was 11! Maybe parents of kids that they know could call them up and ask for babysitting and the pre teen could accept or decline. Rate could be like $7/per hour.

I did too, well age 12 anyways! (I'm 37 now, always loved kids!) but from what I've heard from parents nowadays, they don't seem to want anyone under 16 babysitting, and even that many are saying is too young now! So I wasn't sure if that would be realistic nowadays. Maybe it's just my area though? Here, people also pay babysitters $15/hour/kid (some get away with $10 but then I hear the kids that babysit for them whine and complain about how cheap they were being) which is way out of my budget.

Wow... In some states here, it's technically illegal to leave a child under 16 unattended.
In general it's the parents responsibility if something goes wrong, if the children are not in the care of an adult.
As a result, baby sitters are usually older teens, in upper secondary school, or young adults in tertiary education.

Though, some people do take risks, and leave younger children in the care of their older children, though it would be very unusual for the older child to not be at least a teen.

Aussie babysitters usually get paid about $20 per hour, if they're untrained, and about $28+ per hour if they have qualifications, but a good babysitter can cost up to $40 per hour.

Under 16 illegal? Really?! I'm in Canada and if you aren't looking after younger kids, just home alone, age 10+ is generally considered okay (as ruled by our Supreme Court a couple years ago, as their was no minimum legal age technicallly)

But yeah,I never did the mother's helper thing, I babysat kids age 6 months - 8 years from age when I was 12 almost daily until I graduated high school! (And then watched kids that were about 10 years old when I was 14+) (And then I also babysat one girl who was technically older than me but was mentally disabled so her mind set was of a 7/8 year old, I started staying with her when I was probably 13, but the parents would just be gone for a couple hours in the evenings and we'd just watch tv together and I'd get us a snack type thing and another girl that was had cerebral palsy quite severely who was 11 but I was probably 15 or 16 by then and again, just for short time periods)