Boarding school

Boarding school is a type of school featured in The Sims 3: Generations. Sims are able to enroll their children and teenagers to a specific boarding school. There are 5 types of boarding schools available to attend.

Boarding schools offer a unique education experience for children and teens, provided their parents are willing to pay for the tuition cost. Each boarding school trains students in different skills and traits. Sims do not learn traits from the boarding school, but instead, their offensive traits – depending on the type of school – may be replaced with another good trait. If Sims don't have any of the offensive traits, no necessary traits are replaced. Sims graduating from boarding school may start at level 2 of recommended careers of each school.

Every day, there's a chance that children and teens learn a new skill, improve one, or replace an offensive trait. Children have a maximum of 2 replaced traits, while teens have 3. Children can learn at most 3 new skills from boarding school, while teens can learn 4. The maximum skill level children can learn is up to level 2, and level 4 for teenagers. This means that Sims enrolled in boarding school have a limited amount of learned skills.

Children in boarding schools may call home to catch up with their parents and family. Also, if the parents miss the child too much, they may bring them home, and likewise children can request to withdraw from their school if they dislike it.

List of Boarding Schools
Below is the list of Boarding Schools:
 * Fort Starch Military School - §800
 * School of Peace and Love - §800
 * Dribbledine Sports Academy - §1,200
 * LeFromage Art School - §1,200
 * Smuggsworth Prep School - §1,600

Each boarding school has its own special perks with traits and skills taught to the children and teens attending.

Fort Starch Military School
Cost: §800 Offensive traits: Loser, Slob, Couch Potato, Over Emotional, Clumsy, Insane, Party Animal, Inappropriate, Rebellious Traits: Neat, Good, Brave, Handy, Disciplined Skills: Logic, Handiness, Athletic, Martial Arts Hidden skills: Homework Careers: Military, Law Enforcement, Criminal, Firefighter Special interaction: Salute



School of Peace and Love
Cost: §800 Offensive traits: Mean Spirited, Hates the Outdoors, Snob Traits: Artistic, Vegetarian, Loves the Outdoors, Green Thumb, Eco-friendly Skills: Gardening, Nectar Making, Cooking, Inventing, Fishing Careers: Bookstore Clerk, Science, Culinary, Fisher, Gardener Special interaction: Throw a Peace Sign yehaw yehaw

Dribbledine Sports Academy
Cost: §1,200 Offensive traits: Loser, Slob, Couch Potato, Clumsy, Hates the Outdoors, Rebellious Traits: Athletic, Loves the Outdoors, Adventurous, Handy, Disciplined Skills: Athletic, Handiness, Martial Arts Hidden skills: Foosball, Homework, Trampoline, Blocks Careers: Professional Sports, Law Enforcement, Criminal, Firefighter

LeFromage Art School
Cost: §1,200 Offensive traits: Can't Stand Art, Couch Potato Traits: Virtuoso, Artistic, Charismatic, Photographer's Eye, Dramatic, Star Quality Skills: Charisma, Painting, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Drums, Photography, Sculpting Hidden skills: Dancing, Club Dancing Careers: Music, Film, Architectural Designer, Stylist, Nectar Maker, Photographer, Sculptor, Painter, Writer

Smuggsworth Prep School
Cost: §1,600 Offensive traits: Couch Potato, Slob, Easily Impressed, Inappropriate, Rebellious Traits: Snob, Ambitious, Charismatic Skills: Charisma, Logic, Writing Hidden skills: Homework, Chess Careers: Business, Political, Medical, Journalism, Writer

Trivia

 * Adult Sims created in CAS can randomly have graduated from one of the boarding schools, checking the employment history in the career tab tells you which school they graduated from. They won't have skills from the school but they will be able to do special interactions they would have gained there such as throwing a peace sign if they graduated from the School of Peace and Love, or saluting if they graduated from Fort Starch Military Academy.
 * In a chance card for The Sims 2 in the Culinary career, there is a chef named LeFromage.