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Ability for teens to dropout of school?
pangaea67
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I have a teen character that makes ~1300 simoleans a day (and growing) working from home as a writer, I think there should be the option to drop out of school in cases like this. This does happen in real life, when people drop out of high school to focus on their home business. I imagine it would only take a small amount of code to enable quitting like how sims can quit their jobs.
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Personally I think we should be able to enroll our kids to begin with, and choose what school they go to.
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> Yes, right now Teenagers at least aren't getting anything out of it, they don't bring home any awards or anything when they get an A they don't even get a diploma at the end of it all, going to high school in the sims is useless.
I thought decent grades were needed for some career paths? Also, allowing you to pick the next trait of your sim. May be more useful to some than others.
I don't think I'd call that positive. I tutored for the HiSET program (what my state takes instead of the GED) for many years, and very rarely was dropping out a net positive for their lives. Sometimes their family needed money, but dropping out was almost never an ideal situation. The only exception was cases of extreme bullying, as in the case of my trans brother-in-law, where pulling out of school was better, but still not really a positive. Like you said, the sims struggles to mirror realism at this level, so it's probably better off left to mods, lol. I remember that for TS2 there was a version of inteen that would allow your teenager to drop out if she became pregnant. I have no idea if something like that exists for TS4.
> I have a teen character that makes ~1300 simoleans a day (and growing) working from home as a writer, I think there should be the option to drop out of school in cases like this. This does happen in real life, when people drop out of high school to focus on their home business. I imagine it would only take a small amount of code to enable quitting like how sims can quit their jobs.
MC Command mod, there is an option that allows you to quit school. If kids can quit as well.
if you use the cheat
careers.retire (insert job)
then you don't have to go to school and you get a weekly payment of whatever salary
for example, my sim was a barista so after turning cheats on I typed in
careers.retire barista
and my teen "retired"
hope this helps
Homeschooling would be a good school alternative option, though.
You're probably right but at same time if you play with auto aging turned of, then unless you use birthday cake or age up cheat. Many probably don't wanna have to rabbit hole school all through their game play either. Unless they cancel school and just eat up the hit on grades. But also deal with annoyance of having to do that everyday outside of weekends(where schools closed), I mean been a couple of players including streamers who done rags to riches type playthroughs never going to school, but playing as a homeless teen trying to make their way.
I don't really see the big issue with it, also would go as far as to call it promoting. Promoting usually mean you do something actively to create a situation to further something, plus don't really see reason why it has to be a sheltered thing. I mean school drop out exist and not everyone of become one necessarily end not turning things around for the better. Remember one youtuber who had a story like that ended getting a blue collar job and turning their life around ending respecting hard work to make a living.
Thought part of sims was idea of creating stories for your sims.
Or instead of encouraging or promoting something thats kind of bad, they could just have a "Testing Out" option which allows the teen, if they have good grades to do exactly that and graduate early.
Hmmm... I don't see it as encouraging the behaviour, it depends on how it's portrayed. Just a thought, but a lot more could go into this. A lack of grades could mean issues in other things later on (inability to go to college, issues finding a good-paying job, not being portrayed as intelligent, possibly seeking money through unethical means, special skill requirements for occupations, etc).
I don't see it as a bad thing since high school dropouts are successful and rich while people with proper education end up working at coffee shops and/or McDonalds, if you want some examples here's Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz, they're all high school dropouts and they're still rich and famous to this day.