Seasons of Discrimination
Zazazu:
So. I was playing my Free Love Cult tonight. It was the end of a very snowy winter (and a slow one, 12 sims in a four-story house on a 3x3 who typically bring 4 sims back home from work and school daily, plus juggling three baby-machines and their spawn). The spawn portion of the family consisted, at that time, of two teen girls Blythe and Brook, a boy child Efren and girl child Mindy, twin boy toddlers Ethan and Sebastian, a girl toddler Lexie, and baby Kennedy. Blythe, Brook, and Efren were in private school. Mindy was not as I was waiting until that afternoon, when the toddlers would transition, to ring up the headmaster again.
At 7 am I got the message that there would be a snow day. Yay! The parents would all be at work during the day, Bobbie as a Junior Officer, Jennifer as a Director, Yvonne as a judge, and Richard...obviously...as Cult Leader. No problem, the teens could handle the toddlers and baby. At 8'o'clock a school bus pulls up, but no one gets up to go to school and when I clicked on the bus as Efren I got nothing. I checked all the kids' queus and noticed that Mindy had "Go to School" queued up.
Wait....snow days discriminate between public and private school kids? Only the rich kids get the day off? What the heck is this? I say we boycott Eaxis.
Emma:
I've noticed this too, although it was on a different lot. My private schoolkids had 3 consecutive days off through snow and on the next lot, even though the snow was thick on the ground and it still continued to snow my public school simkid had no pop up message. I just thought it might be a random thing.
SnootCB:
I'm pretty sure it is just random. The vast majority of my simkids are in public school, but they do get snow days every once in a while. It's just weird that the game didn't register the snow day for Mindy. Hm. Odd.
pioupiou:
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that snow days are random and different for private and public schools. SO you could have had the snow day for public and nothing for private, or vice versa, or nothing for both, or snow day for both....
Khan of Wyrms:
I'd say this is definitely random. I had a similar occurrence once, save it was the private school kid that had to go to class and the public school brat got to stay home. At first I thought it was planned this way, since it reminded me of my youth, having to go to school while all of the neighborhood kids got to stay home. Overall, I'd have to say that snow days do not happen very often, and do not seem to have any relation to the quantity of snow on the ground either.
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