Everything Sims 2

Students in private school will wear their everyday clothes and no longer change into a uniform.

Sick sims can stay home from school without penalty. If a student (child or teen) is sick, then the bus will still come but the “go to school” command will not be pushed on the sick kid. It will be pushed on any healthy students in the house. There will be no grade penalty for sick students who skip school, even if they get better before the day ends.

This upload contains two different mods that affect the school day. One that makes schools start earlier, and one that makes school days shorter for children so they come home from school at the same time as their older siblings. With School Starts Earlier, school will start at 8am in both public and private school. It does not affect how long the school day is, so teens will get out at noon, and children will get out at 2pm, unless you choose to use the second mod that shortens school day for children. One benefit of the school day starting earlier is that your teens with jobs that start at 3pm get an additional hour to take care of needs before it’s time to go to work.

With Shorter School Days your Sim children only have to spend 4 hours in school, just like teen Sims. There are 3 versions of this.
A- Children go to school for 4 hours, just like teens
B- Children in public school have 4 hour school days, but children in private school have 6 hours school days as usual
C- Children in private school have 4 hour school days, but children in public school have 6 hours school days as usual

This is a global mod that changes dress code for public school so that public school students wear the same uniform as private school students. Does not conflict with Cyjon’s No Private School Uniform, so if you want to you could use his mod and this to switch things around so that public school kids wear uniform and private school kids wear their own clothes.

This hack will force your kids/teens to run going to school bus.

Downloading this hack will cause sim children and teens to stay home from school during summer; it doesn’t affect anything else. If a sim child or teen is already at school during the summer when you install this hack, they will come home at 3:00 or 1:00 as usual, and then not go to school for the rest of the summer.

Instead of stopping school during summer, this mod will stop school for the first season in the queue only (for instance, if your seasonal rotation is fall winter winter spring, your sims will get a fall vacation instead of a summer vacation). This mod was made primarily for those who play neighbourhoods with unusuall season set-ups and either have multiple summers or no summers at all.

Child goes to school on Monday morning and returns on Friday at 4pm. If they miss the bus on Monday, the bus will also come on the following day and so on. Fees payable. Uniform. If you change the child’s school while they are away for the week, they will come home the same day if before 4pm or next day if you do it later. Warning – changing school mid-week makes your child lose a grade. This wasn’t intentional, but it’s fairly realistic anyway. Walk or fly to school not available with this school.

Part of Simlogical’s School System used to organize and run lessons in an individual classroom. Place one controller in each classroom and use it to select which class of pupils will attend, assign an adult or elder Sim as their teacher, and choose the subject or classroom activity. Lessons can be started manually, which calls the appropriate teacher and pupils into the room, or scheduled automatically using the built-in weekly timetable. The controller also works with Simlogical’s Classroom Door to keep the correct pupils in the classroom and other students out during lessons. A Home Room option can designate a particular class as the regular users of the room when another lesson isn’t taking place. When used with the Classroom Table and Workbook, the controller can also start Gradework lessons and send pupils to their desks to study.

Place with the green arrow pointing into the classroom. This keeps in pupils who are meant to be in a lesson, and keeps out those who are not. A pupil may go through the door if the player instructs them to go and do something (such as going to the toilet). Works in conjunction with the classroom controller.

This is NOT the same as the homework table.  This is a completely separate object to work with the classroom controller.

When you start a gradework lesson for a class, a book is generated on top of each table, for as many pupils as there are in the class. They will be automatically called to study and woken up if necessary.

The teacher has some power over how well the children study. For example, you must have the teacher selected before you can tell a straying child to come back to his workbook. If teacher leaves the room, most of the kids will jump up and play. They tend to take a while to settle down to work in any case and during that time the teacher will have to keep calling them back to their desks. Some teachers will do this more autonomously than others. Don’t have your teachers too high in fun, or the kids will sense they can mess about

Has an option to call all pupils into a room, and one to wake up all sleeping Sims.

It’s essentially a convenience/organization tool rather than a necessary part of running classes.

For example, in a boarding school you might put one in the dining hall. Instead of individually directing 15 students to breakfast, you can use the Crowd Controller to bring all the pupils into that room. Or you could put one in an assembly hall, recreation room, cafeteria, gym, or other communal area and quickly gather the entire school there.

It doesn’t appear to assign classes, start lessons, control classroom doors, enroll pupils, or otherwise manage the school system. Those jobs belong to the other School System objects. Simlogical’s own description of the Crowd Controller only lists those two commands.

No set days and no bus. This is for children who are either educated at home, not educated at all, or who attend a school institution run by the player. No fees. Uniform (unused)

This hack is so that you can stop all processing to do with jobs or schools (no bus, no carpool, no warnings, no grade drops) on lots where the object is placed. This hack suite is for three situations.

1.) You have a residential lot you are playing as a school or prison or some other institution and you don’t want the school bus or car pool turning up and taking some sims away.
2.) You have a normal family home, but occasionally you would like them to all have one or more days off at the same time.
3.) You like to make non-resident sims selectable sometimes but you don’t want these sims being collected for school or work along with the actual family members. If this is the only feature you want, you only need the patches, you don’t need the sign.

Files Included

ijInstitutionSignFT – This is the file containing the object itself. It should be placed on any lot where you sometimes want to stop the car pool or school bus coming. It has two alternative 3D meshes, so it can appear as an institutional looking sign board, or you can use its menu to toggle the model to a shrub, to use it on home lots. This file alone contains no global overrides so may be used as a purely decorative object if you don’t want the patches.

When you first place this object, it will be automatically set to stop job and school car pools and processing if you have the appropriate patches.  A menu option allows job and school carpools and processing to go back to normal. To make it actually work to stop school and job processing, you also need one or more of the patches listed below.  Each one will likely clash with other non-Simlogical hacks, so you have to choose the combination that will cause you least problems with your favourite hacks.

Job
If you want the hack to affect sims going to work, choose ONE of the following.
ijInstSignPatchAL_Job2009 – Advantage – Allows your sim to use car to go to work if you tell him to even when the sign says no work.
ijInstSignPatchAL_Job201C – Disadvantage – Cannot even drive to work when sign set to no work

School
If you want the hack to affect sims going to school (children and teens), choose ONE of the following.
ijInstSignPatchAL_School201F.zip -Advantage – Allows kids to be driven to school if you want them to even when the sign says no school. Disadvantage – Clashes with TwoJeffs’ school bus bring friend hack & Clashes with Pescado’s AL “Alfixes.package”
ijInstSignPatchAL_School200B.zip – Disadvantage – Cannot even drive to school when sign set to no school. Clashes with Poiple_SummerVacation.package

Hours 9-5 for both children and teens. Pupils do their homework at school before they come home. Fees payable. Uniform

Place one Pupil Token for each student you want enrolled in school. You can have as many tokens as you need.

When you click a blank token, its menu lets you select a child or teenage Sim from the neighborhood and enroll them. The Sim briefly appears beside the token during enrollment so the mod can put that Sim’s picture on their token, making it easy to see which token belongs to which student.

Once they’re enrolled, the School Bell recognizes Sims who have Pupil Tokens. When you start the school day, those students are brought to the school lot, assembled near the School Bell, and made selectable so you can control them. When you end the school day, they become unselectable again.

It also determines which class the student belongs to. Each pupil can be assigned to Class 1, 2, 3, or 4. Importantly, “Class” here means something closer to a school year/grade or student group, rather than a physical classroom.

For Example:
Class 1 → younger students
Class 2 → older children
Class 3 → younger teens
Class 4 → older teens

Those particular age divisions are just an example—you can decide what Classes 1–4 mean in your own school.

You can also expel students

Once you’ve enrolled someone, their token gains an Expel option. This removes that Sim from the school’s enrollment.

The tokens can interact with some of Simlogical’s other institutional objects, too. For example, Simlogical’s special institutional beds can detect Pupil Tokens. If a Pupil Token is placed in a particular dormitory, the compatible beds in that room can be restricted to the pupil or pupils whose tokens are there. This allows you to assign students to specific dorm rooms in a boarding school.

To easily change your children from one school to another without using SimPE or inviting the headmaster, use the menu on this object. It should recognise any custom school as well as the Maxis ones.

An alternative for the table which can be placed on any other dining table or dining table clone of your choice.  It is an invisible place mat with a visible pencil so you can see where it is.  This has the SAME GUID as the table so you must choose EITHER the table OR the place mat to have in your downloads folder, and delete the other file.  Recolourable.

Makes pupils who have a token assigned appear and become selectable when you choose to start school, and become unselectable when you end school for the day. To make a boarding school, simply don’t end school for several days. But better still, move the pupils in properly which frees up space at home for your family Sims to have more babies.

You can assign a School Principal with this token. The Principal may enter any classroom. Any teacher already assigned to a class will also be teleported in when school starts.

A painting (or you can clone it and give it a new mesh) which allows you to set a uniform for the children in your school. Each painting is associated with one school uniform template.

The setter has a menu.  You can “Start Auto” or “Stop Auto”.  Auto mode means it looks for a school controller, and if the school is in session, the uniform setting changes all children and teens on the lot into school uniform provided they are 1) selectable (so it doesn’t accidentally catch the papergirl), 2) wearing “normal” clothes not outdoor or swimming etc.  Every 5 sim minutes it checks round the lot again for sims that need changing.   If you have a boarding school and wish to keep the school in session over weekends while allowing the children to wear their own clothes, simply turn off auto mode at weekends.

“Force into Uniform”.  This changes all children and teens into uniform as long as they are selectable.  It takes no notice whether the school is in session or not, or what the child is already wearing.   Children may be in the swimming pool and this will still put uniform on them.

“Force out of Uniform”.  This changes all children and teens who are wearing uniform into their casual clothes.  Does not test for selectable, so that it can still work after school has ended.  NB If any teens are dressed ready to go to work, this will change them too.

This item will be found in your catalogue under Misc/Misc

This mod makes kids always bring a friend home when they return from school.

This mod allows you to have teens stay home from school without loosing a grade while your shop is open

This mod allows sims to wear any outfit to private school.