Summers off?

"Destin2016;d-941126" wrote:
Hey, fellow simmers, has anything been said about whether kids will have summers off from school? Just wondering.

We don't know either way.

I don't think they've said, but I doubt it. I think taking an entire 7 days off from school is losing too much time when children/teens only have a few weeks before aging up (using normal life span and the default season length as an example). Just my opinion. :smile:

They never had summers off in previous game so I don't think it will happen here. However kids and teens get like 3-4 vacation days so if you have them use that and then either have them call off sick or have a sim with a high enough writing skill write them an excuse note you could create a summer holiday quite easily if you have it set to the default week long seasons.

I doubt it also, but it might be something that can be done with the new calendar or custom holiday feature. I’m thinking we could add a few “holidays” in a row or something like that to make a summer break.

"Kita5399;c-16517499" wrote:
I doubt it also, but it might be something that can be done with the new calendar or custom holiday feature. I’m thinking we could add a few “holidays” in a row or something like that to make a summer break.

Good idea! I do remember a tweet somewhere that a guru hinted that there would be no school on a holiday.

...Some places have school during the summer, but iirc in TS3 they did not have off during summer.

I didn't hear anything about that, but I doubt that they will actually go that far to take school off in the summer.

Not sure if I'd like that. Would have to find something for my kids to do all day.

Doubt it, as others have said, 7 days off is a good chunk of their childhood life. If you had a longer age span or just wanted to give them suffer off anyway, you could always use vacation days. I'm sure you could make a holiday every day of summer called "school's off!" to give them the day off as well :)

I asked if kids would be off on holidays in luth's info thread and rosemow linked me this. I'm beyond excited for the possibilities. For me not just vacations but challenges and other days being used as "holidays".
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGeorge/status/1004065783746457600?s=20

If this works out you could make your summer vacations. I could have homeless challenges be "holidays" in a way.
I really hate to use mod so I'm looking forward to this as a tool.