Learning skills while at Grade/High School?

"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.