Boarding school

Boarding School

Boarding school graduation robes (L-R) : Smuggsworth Prep School, LeFromage Art School, School of Peace and Love, Dribbledine Sports Academy, Fort Starch Military 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

Each boarding school has its own special perks with traits and skills taught to the children and teens attending. Below is the list of Boarding Schools:

School	Tuition	Teaches	Removable traits	Replaced with	Headstarts at level 2
Fort Starch Military School	§800	Athletic Handiness Logic Martial Arts Homework Salute (Interaction)	Clumsy Couch Potato Inappropriate Insane Loser Over Emotional Party Animal Rebellious Slob	Brave Good Handy Neat Disciplined	Military Law Enforcement Criminal Firefighter
School of Peace and Love		Cooking Fishing Gardening Nectar Making Inventing Throw a Peace Sign (Interaction)	Hates the Outdoors Mean Spirited Snob	Artistic Green Thumb Loves the Outdoors Vegetarian Eco-friendly	Bookstore Clerk Culinary Fisher Gardener Science
Dribbledine Sports Academy	§1,200	Athletic Handiness Martial Arts Blocks Foosball Homework Trampoline	Clumsy Couch Potato Hates the Outdoors Loser Rebellious Slob	Athletic Handy Loves the Outdoors Adventurous Disciplined	Professional Sports Law Enforcement Criminal Firefighter
LeFromage Art School		Charisma Guitar Painting Photography Sculpting Bass Piano Drums Dancing Club Dancing	Can't Stand Art Couch Potato	Artistic Charismatic Virtuoso Photographer's Eye Dramatic Star quality	Music Painter Writer Nectar Maker Photographer Architectural Designer Sculptor Stylist Film
Smuggsworth Prep School	§1,600	Charisma Logic Writing Homework Chess	Couch Potato Easily Impressed Inappropriate Rebellious Slob	Ambitious Charismatic Snob	Business Journalism Medical Political 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.