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Dropouts

This mod causes some of your cims to drop out of school or university.

When they do, they remain at a lower education level, which means:

• you need to deal with having some less educated workers in your city, even when you have full school coverage.
  
• your industry and commerce that only needs less educated workers won't have to compete with the highly educated jobs for these workers.

Enacting the Education Boost policy will reduce the number of dropouts.

Source code is available on github[github.com].

FAQ

How does it work?

For context, the normal simulation (without this mod) works as follows:

• If a cim attends elementary school, on the transition from Child to Teen they become Educated.
  
• If a cim attends high school, on the transition from Teen to Young Adult they become Well Educated.
  
• Young Adult and Adult cims will either try to get a job or go to university. On the transition from Young Adult to Adult, or at set intervals (15 ticks) after becoming an Adult, if they are at university they become Highly Educated.
  
• If a cim has a job they generally won't switch and go to university unless they're made unemployed for some reason.

This mod makes the following alterations:

• At the end of high school, 15% (0% with Education Boost) of sims will flunk completely and become Uneducated. 20% (15%) will flunk out and become Educated. 35% will pass and become Well Educated, but won't immediately apply for university. The rest (30%, or 50% with Education Boost) follow the normal simulation behavior of selecting between university and work.
  
• At the end of university, 50% of students fail (don't become Highly Educated).
  
• Cims who are Uneducated or Educated won't go to university. Cims who are well educated but have a job might still go to university if they are made unemployed. Cims who fail university the first time might go back and try again.

The effect is quite subtle, and takes time to show up on an existing city. Remember that cims also arrive and leave your city at different education levels and this isn't affected by this mod. University demand is reduced a bit, although some cims do end up attending twice after failing the first time. On my test city, after several years of simulation I ended up with the following distribution:

• Uneducated: 7%
  
• Educated: 10%
  
• Well Educated: 33%
  
• Highly Educated: 50%

Will it corrupt my save?

No. It only modifies the running simulation. If you remove the mod then your cims will return to always passing school and your education levels will slowly revert back to the standard distribution.