ijSchoolWorkTable.zip   (no globals)

Zip file contains both the table and the workbook packages.  You will need both of them for either one of them to work!

Useful for home-schooled children!   This can be used in a normal family home for improving grades, or within the school; but the special classroom table and workbook above are what you need for use with the classroom controller.

Click on the table.  Create work for…  Then when the work is made, the child should come over and start to do it.  If he doesn’t seem keen, you can click on the workbook and use the menu option to call him to work.  Doing the work satisfies the Do Homework want, and getting help satisfies the Get Help with Homework want.  And when he has finished, his school grade goes up by 4 points – for example from C to B+.   You can use the book’s menu to stop a kid working before he has finished, in which case he will get one school grade point for each 25% he managed to do.  If the child is controllable, you can of course also cancel the icon from the queue, and send him to do something else for a little while, leaving the work there for later.

The school work getting done relies partly on the kid being tricked into thinking it will be good value for *all* his motives, so you might need to step in and suggest he eat or go to the toilet if he is reaching desperation level (although I have built in a safeguard against actually starving while working).   Also for the same reason, if you use mood booster hacks, you might find him less inclined to do the schoolwork.

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An alternative for the table which can be placed on any other dining table or dining table clone of your choice.  It is an invisible placemat with a visible pencil so you can see where it is.  This has the SAME GUID as the table so you must choose EITHER the table OR the placemat to have in your downloads folder, and delete the other file.  Recolourable.

Using these patches (choose one, you cannot have both in your game), whenever a Sim does their homework, extra points very slowly accumulate to all their skills.

NB The skills affected by this are the original ones only: Cooking, Cleaning, Mechanical, Body, Charisma, Logic, Creativity

HomeworkSkills.zip (contains replacement globals)

ijHomeworkSkills_BV.zip   (contains replacement globals)

Children and teens gain skill while doing homework, but cannot actually finish scoring each skill point without using conventional means of skilling.   What you will notice if they go to paint or something after finishing their homework, their skill meter will be quite high already.

HomeworkSkillsLikeA.zip (contains replacement globals)

ijHomeworkSkillsLikeA_BV.zip   (contains replacement globals)

Allows continual skilling, but will not maximise any skill, so that the Sim can still go and use a skill object briefly and get his Maximise a Skill want fulfilled

This bridging patch is suitable for all EPs that TJ’s hack is suitable for.
ijTJcompatHomeworkSkills.zip

Important points:
1) You still need my HomeworkSkills (one of the two versions) and TJ’s HomeworkSometimes installed as normal.
2) You need to make sure the file from this download, known as the bridging patch, loads AFTER BOTH MINE AND TJ’s HACK.  An idea for how to do this is to create a folder in your top level Downloads, called ZZZsomething and put it in there.

I have created some new school types which affect when or if your children get collected by the school bus    You can enroll your children on any of these, as well as the existing schools, by placing a school changer on the lot and using its menu with the child selected.   Once you have made your choice of school, the bell may be deleted.

This is absolutely nothing to do with making your own school using my school institution controllers.  Your child may be registered in any school from their home, and still turn up to the school you are controlling on another lot.

ijSchoolChangerBasegame.zip (no globals)

ijSchoolChanger.zip   (no globals)

To easily change your children from one school to another without using SimPE or inviting the headmaster, use the menu on this object.  It should recognise any custom school as well as the Maxis ones.

ijPrepSchool.zip  (no globals)

ijPrepSchool_AL.zip (no globals) (updated 13th Jan 2009)

Hours 9-5 for both children and teens.  Pupils do their homework at school before they come home.  Fees payable.  Uniform

ijBoardingSchool.zip  (no globals)

ijBoardingSchool_AL.zip  (no globals) (updated 11th Jan 2009)

Child goes to school on Monday morning and returns on Friday at 4pm.  If they miss the bus on Monday, the bus will also come on the following day and so on.  Fees payable.  Uniform

If you change the child’s school while they are away for the week, they will come home the same day if before 4pm or next day if you do it later.  Warning – changing school mid-week makes your child lose a grade.  This wasn’t intentional, but it’s fairly realistic anyway

Walk or fly to school not available with this school.

ijFlexiSchool.zip (no globals)

ijFlexiSchool_AL.zip  (no globals) (updated 11th Jan 2009)

No set days and no bus.  This is for children who are either educated at home, not educated at all, or who attend a school institution run by the player.  No fees.  Uniform (unused)

ijUniBreakObject.zip   (no globals)

ijUniBreakPatch.zip   (contains replacement globals)

Download BOTH files to obtain the effect.

Affects only the playable students on the lot they live in, where this object is placed.  Compatible with TwoJeffs’ College Adjuster.

NoAutonomyEasel.zip (no globals)

Can be used with later EPs but will be missing some interactions

ReservableEasel.zip (no globals)

Can be used with later EPs but will be missing some interactions

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This allows autonomous studying according to the Sim’s personality and aspirations.  The attractiveness of studying autonomously are at their lowest for playful pleasure-seekers and at their highest for serious knowledge Sims.  The field of study that is most attractive is biased a little by the interests and personality, and there is very little attraction to study a subject the Sim is already maximised on.

Occasionally when a Sim goes to study autonomously, he will tell himself “uh-uh I am not in the mood”.  This is usually if there are books already lying around, because I think he starts to think of using one of those, and they are obviously not carrying my hack.

Not advised to use with later EPs – may update some time if requested.