I was watching the Smarter and Weirder Stories video and noticed the girls were wearing school uniforms which could confirm that they're back. Two girls are in the same outfit, and the girl being bullied is wearing a uniform look as well, though not the plaid skirt. It could be that they can switch around uniforms as well.
Before you get too excited, there's no way to tell if this video was shot in an actual non-rabbit hole school; or a public library. If it were in a school, that's awesome because that means no school rabbit holes. However, I doubt it because the Gurus did mention kids would go "off the lot" the same way as the adults do when they go to work.
The reason I wonder if it's a library is because obviously the library has been a non rabbit hole in the past and I noticed books on the desks and book bags on the floor. There's also something that looks like a sign next too the book bag but I can't tell. My other theory is that it's just a cut scene and we might get possible video cut scenes from work places and school depending on the scenarios.
If you want to see it live, just go to 0:21 on the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXJ-O8OFDhI#t=21
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I think they just have some sort of plaid skirt in regular clothing that they put them in and then just grabbed a generic white shirt for them in order to make this. It's not too hard to just dress everyone the same in order to mislead people into thinking that private schools or actually seeing your sims in school is a feature of gameplay.
They showed a playpen in the Sims 2 trailer and when the game launched, there was no playpen.
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That makes me sad to hear. It's a shame that they've snubbed us having no gameplay vids that everything we see has to be taken at face value.
I think that's supposed to be a library, since it doesn't look like a classroom to me. If those sims weren't dressed alike I don't think that thought that this was a sign of private schools would have even crossed your mind.
They would probably make a return to a Generations-related expansion though. :P