Learning skills while at Grade/High School?

I think in Sims 3 if you sent children/teens to boarding school they came back with skills, I'd love for even this feature to return. It makes little sense how it is now, what are they actually doing there all day then?! :/

Yes, they could learn skills in boarding school. In Sims 2 they could get chance cards that could give them skills.
It would be great if they had the opportunity to learn skills in school. Things like writing and creativity in elementary school and handiness and cooking in highschool. When you choose "make friends" it should be building social and charisma.

@Camkat - Yess! Boarding school needs a return too. Hah the parenthood stuff.

"lisamwitt;c-17751447" wrote:
Yes, they could learn skills in boarding school. In Sims 2 they could get chance cards that could give them skills.
It would be great if they had the opportunity to learn skills in school. Things like writing and creativity in elementary school and handiness and cooking in highschool. When you choose "make friends" it should be building social and charisma.

Yes!! My thoughts exactly!!

While I'm inclined to agree that yes, kids/teens should learn skills at school... by that logic, so should adults learn one (or both) of the skills required for their job (though obviously at a lower rate than either kids or working on it at home) while they're at work.

As it stands now unless you're in an active career or working from home (and therefore the player is in charge of the sim's actions) Adult sims don't learn skills from anything except specifically University Classes (either their regular coursework or a class they're sitting in on). So from Child to Adult, it's at least consistent.

YES PLEASE! Otherwise school is just a time waster. Player could be, I dunno, working on skills instead of school but no - there is school. There are mods that add this type of functionality for school, but this HAS to be in a game as is.

Yeah, it never made sense to me why children and teens never learned skills at school, except maybe for a few random events in Sims 2 for private school students. The grades were only used for a reward/punishment system (military school, not being able to hold a part-time job, earning reward money, etc.) It would make more sense if they learned some basic skills, which would make working towards good grades more meaningful from a gameplay perspective

What we have in Discover University actually makes the most sense, so I think they should extend it to lower school levels too. Grade school students build a foundation (maybe even add a study skill that makes high school more manageable for them as teens) and teens can pick electives to hone certain skills.

"DaWaterRat;c-17751486" wrote:
While I'm inclined to agree that yes, kids/teens should learn skills at school... by that logic, so should adults learn one (or both) of the skills required for their job (though obviously at a lower rate than either kids or working on it at home) while they're at work.

As it stands now unless you're in an active career or working from home (and therefore the player is in charge of the sim's actions) Adult sims don't learn skills from anything except specifically University Classes (either their regular coursework or a class they're sitting in on). So from Child to Adult, it's at least consistent.

I also agree with this. Adults should build some skill at work too. It can be slower, but it should still be something. They could include it in the menu where you set the tone for the work day: work hard, work normal, take it easy, build logic (or whatever skill is applicable for that job).

I don't really like my sims gaining too much skills. I think it's already easy enough.

"DaWaterRat;c-17751486" wrote:
While I'm inclined to agree that yes, kids/teens should learn skills at school... by that logic, so should adults learn one (or both) of the skills required for their job (though obviously at a lower rate than either kids or working on it at home) while they're at work.

As it stands now unless you're in an active career or working from home (and therefore the player is in charge of the sim's actions) Adult sims don't learn skills from anything except specifically University Classes (either their regular coursework or a class they're sitting in on). So from Child to Adult, it's at least consistent.

It's consistent, but it still feels unabalanced to me. My adult sims fill their progress bar at work, return home with money and can expect a promotion sometime down the line. That's a nice payoff for sending my sim away every day.
To the contrary sending my younger sims away doesn't give me daily gratification. They work their backsides off and face often unfair or mean worded chance cards for the vague promise of one day starting at level 3 in their career. That's too small a reward, and school feels like wasted time. (Boarding school isn't an option for me, what would be the point in having kids if I send them away anyway?)

Now if there was a general knowledge skill that got raised by attending school and that would meaningfully impact everyday life (Kitchen fire -> what was the emergency number again?), or maybe even if bad grades would actively slow down the career progress bar later on, then I could warm up to school more.