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.

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.

They can if you play with the calendar. It was stated you could have everyday a holiday
https://twitter.com/simguruemory/status/1004432327856930816
And then kids can get holidays off
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGeorge/status/1004065783746457600?s=20

So if you want summer vacation mark the two months (or whatever you choose) as holidays and kids don't go to school.

More I hear about the calendar the more happy I am with this pack :smiley:

"3KNPen;c-16518042" wrote:
But if you make everyday a holiday does that mean adults wouldn’t go to work either? I mean it would work short term but I don’t think I’d want my adult sims not to work and get job performance just so the kids wouldn’t have to go to school in summer.

However this would be a godsend for a historical save or save where you wanted to home school your kids along with the parents working from home in some fashion.

It sounds to me like it's an *option* to make a holiday a no-school day. Could be just an option for adults too. So... maybe you could make every day a school holiday? But we don't yet know if we can have two holidays on the same day, I think.

I have a feeling it will all be options and optional. Just guessing but it seems likely you can send your kids to school, keep them home .. have more days off than vacation days off provide. I don't think you will have to use it like this but for some people it will make more and different stories possible. I don't have to call any of these days holidays to use it.. They could all be my twisted universe days lol.