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    When teens are grounded, how are they suppose to goto school?

    HayleyBofDEHayleyBofDE Posts: 244 Member
    in The Sims 3 General Discussion
    Hi,

    I have two teens that are grounded and there parents are not letting them go out, even for school. They then also get into more trouble for now skipping. When they couldn't even be allow to go in the first place.

    Is there a way they can goto school with being grounded?

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      TanyaRubiroseTanyaRubirose Posts: 11,033 Member
      edited November 2011
      Nope. They only get in trouble for it.

      Something EA overlooked, really.
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      LOLitzmeLOLitzme Posts: 485 Member
      edited November 2011
      Sadly I can't help, but I agree it's so annoying! :evil: I don't think there's a way to get grounded sims to school without facing the wrath of their parents, at least I don't know any... :cry:
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      HayleyBofDEHayleyBofDE Posts: 244 Member
      edited November 2011
      TanyaRubirose wrote:
      Nope. They only get in trouble for it.

      Something EA overlooked, really.

      Ok.

      Do you know, if there will be more problems if they fail all the way?

      I remember with Sims 1 they were taken away.
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      pepperjax1230pepperjax1230 Posts: 7,953 Member
      edited November 2011
      They can go to school but I think its annoying if they get caught again the parent will drop everything including there job to drive home to punish them. They need to fix it so that doesn't override work.
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      MykalaplyMykalaply Posts: 1,041 Member
      edited November 2011
      This is very annoying, I know, but what I do is have the grounded teen sneak out and upon returning home, I have them go straight to their room click on the door of the room choose lock for everyone but myself when the parent tries to scold them the door will be locked. I keep the teen there until the scolding option disappears. hope this helps. :D
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      snurflessnurfles Posts: 3,640 Member
      edited November 2011
      Mykalaply wrote:
      This is very annoying, I know, but what I do is have the grounded teen sneak out and upon returning home, I have them go straight to their room click on the door of the room choose lock for everyone but myself when the parent tries to scold them the door will be locked. I keep the teen there until the scolding option disappears. hope this helps. :D

      Great idea! I always forget that we can lock the doors.
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      Halle_MHalle_M Posts: 6,539 Member
      edited November 2011
      I just have my teen walk to the edge of the property. Then, I have them go over it. Once over, I click "go to school."

      The parents can't respond fast enough to the teen leaving, because the teen only took one step, and got off the property. That works every time, for me.

      Either that, or have the parents go off to the grocery store or something, and then the teen can leave. I haven't had any parents come back home to scold the teen for that.
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      AmagirlAmagirl Posts: 2,525 Member
      edited November 2011
      Got the answer!!

      Type in testingcheatsenabled true in the cheat box
      then ctrl + left click on the grounded moodlet, and poof!! It's gone!
      Either that or make the parent let them off the hook
      (I think that only comes with generations :?)
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      pr0x1mapr0x1ma Posts: 5,898 Member
      edited November 2011
      I just teleport my teens to school if they are in trouble.
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      Frn0731Frn0731 Posts: 7,180 Member
      edited November 2011
      It's so ironic. rather than having the teens skip school they sneak off to school. :roll:
      Laugh out loud. Often
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      pepperjax1230pepperjax1230 Posts: 7,953 Member
      edited November 2011
      Its also stupid if they are like 1 minute late they get in trouble. :roll:
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      HayleyBofDEHayleyBofDE Posts: 244 Member
      edited November 2011
      Mykalaply wrote:
      This is very annoying, I know, but what I do is have the grounded teen sneak out and upon returning home, I have them go straight to their room click on the door of the room choose lock for everyone but myself when the parent tries to scold them the door will be locked. I keep the teen there until the scolding option disappears. hope this helps. :D

      I'll give that a try. Thank you. :D
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      HayleyBofDEHayleyBofDE Posts: 244 Member
      edited November 2011
      Mykalaply wrote:
      This is very annoying, I know, but what I do is have the grounded teen sneak out and upon returning home, I have them go straight to their room click on the door of the room choose lock for everyone but myself when the parent tries to scold them the door will be locked. I keep the teen there until the scolding option disappears. hope this helps. :D

      I tried that last night and it worked out great. Thank you so much. :D
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      Magic_DancerMagic_Dancer Posts: 1,398 Member
      edited November 2011
      Frn0731 wrote:
      It's so ironic. rather than having the teens skip school they sneak off to school. :roll:

      How true. :)
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      HayleyBofDEHayleyBofDE Posts: 244 Member
      edited December 2011
      Amagirl wrote:
      Got the answer!!

      Type in testingcheatsenabled true in the cheat box
      then ctrl + left click on the grounded moodlet, and poof!! It's gone!
      Either that or make the parent let them off the hook
      (I think that only comes with generations :?)

      I finally used that last night. That helped out in so many ways. Thank you for bring it up . :)
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      Nik24X7Nik24X7 Posts: 7,865 Member
      edited December 2011
      I use Twallan's MC to increase their school performance. It's under Intermediate --> Careers --> School Performance. I give them a 100, which is an A. The parents are less likely to punish a teen who is getting straight A's. And if nothing else, they won't fail school.

      This problem makes me wonder whether EA ever tests anything before releasing it in an EP. :roll:
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