What do you want for improved teens

I know that much of our play is at least in part imaginary, because the game itself is not especially realistic, but imo the most glaringly obvious departures from reality occur during the teen years and I frankly I'd prefer that it was otherwise.

In previous versions of the game, the kids graduated from school at a set point in the school year rather than when they aged up to young adults and on graduation they received a formal recognition of all their hard work and good attendance in the form of a diploma, but in this version of the game the whole high school experience is next to pointless and it ends abruptly without any overt reward.

In addition, you get a lot of homework every single day, which gives you very little game time to skill build or socialise your teen sim, if you want to produce an academically high-achieving child and yet, surely, skill building and socialisation is the whole point of school.

Equally, as the player, if you want your sims to fail and drop-out to tell a different kind of life story that should also be a valid option too, without the child being taken away, because in real life you can fail and can still turn it around later.

While I agree that many aspects of the typical teenage experience is missing from the game, like rebellion and rule breaking I'd prefer to have the choice to engage this kind of behaviour, I don't want the game dynamics to force me into it. There's enough of that in the game already.

I have parenthood installed and its hard enough to produce a well-rounded, successful child with the frequent mood swings generated. I don't want to add further dysfunction into my game. It would not improve my experience. However, I would like to see more teen specific activities and venues, aspiration and a non rabbit hole school experience with a properly structure school year, complete with holidays.