Seasons of Discrimination
Zazazu:
I've had snow days quite a few times, but it was always in houses where the kids were all in the same school type. Usually public. It always seems to occur when at least three days in a row have had snow. Heavy or not I'm not sure as I don't pay that much attention. But not always. I've had some lots which had heavy snow every day in Winter, plus a couple days into Spring and no snow day. So I'd bet it's like abduction but with higher odds. Something like "Is there snow?--Run probability of snow day (10% x days of snow)" but apparently it's run for each school type. It seems odd, but I guess I can convince myself that the public school is in Downtown Craziness and the private school is in Urban Paradise, or somesuch.
idtaminger:
I think it's pretty realistic. I live in NY and I remember every time there was particularly heavy snowfall having to check the news for the school closing lists, to see which schools were closed and which weren't. Unfortunately for me I went to HS in Manhattan, which meant that unless it was city-infrastructure-debilitating snowfall I had to go to school pretty much all the time. The kids in the suburbs usually got snow days off, the lucky bastards.
So if you just imagine the private school being in a posh Uptown neighborhood, and the public school in suburbia, it makes sense to have different snow days.
Invisigoth:
Yeah, I think it's more realistic, too. I was one of the few students who did not live on the campus of the private school that I attended and rather commuted from home. When most of the students just have to walk across a field to get to class there are very few snow days. My brother attended public school and it felt like he always got snow days.
KatEnigma:
I've heard of this happening. The only weird thing is that I've noticed that if it's snowing at exactly 7 AM when the pop up is due for the "the schoolbus will arrive" crap, then my kids have a snow day. Why it would only trigger for one group and not the other, is probably a glitch, but I like the realism too. Not that I've ever had it happen- I wait to call the Headmaster until all the kids are schoolage, so I don't have to put up with him more than once per household per generation.
Zazazu:
If I waited for that, the majority of the kids in this household wouldn't have made it. Blythe only has three more days in the house. And dealing with cranky, fun-deprived kids at the same time as two or three pregnant sims and a bunch of toddlers/babies is...not enjoyable. It's much better when I can immediately throw them at their homework, then pull some food out of the fridge and let them amuse themselves and me in the process.
Ah well. At least all the school-age kids are now in private school now. As soon as Kennedy and the (at least) two more spawn immediately eminent are school-age, I'll do the dance again. Then maybe one more time for the next round. The baby machines are getting close to elder.
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