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

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

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.
 * Le Fromage means The Cheese in French, therefore "LeFromage Art School" means "The Cheese Art School".
 * In a chance card for The Sims 2 in the Culinary career, there is a chef named LeFromage.
 * Upon graduating from Fort Starch Military School, Sims will learn the Can Salute hidden trait.