Work Education: Because I'm a horrible person

[SnowDragon]

Look, the title says it all.

I want to create child labour, based on the Soviet Union (and modern day Russia >_>) practice of Work Education, where children are used as unpaid labour despite child labour being outlawed in 1922. I have played around with modifying the game files to make a school building produce an output and have storage for said output, and while this displays in the game description of the building (and when selected after being built), it does not produce any resources when fully staffed and students are present.

I suspect this is due to the fact that the game classes production buildings as $factory and schools are $school and only production tagged buildings can actually produce anything, but I wanted to see if anyone smarter than I had any ideas.

And if a dev wanted to lend me some insight (if they don't instantly ban me first for literally being a monster then I'd really appreciate it!

[Twiface]

I don't know anything about modding, but I doubt you could do that without recoding how children behave or how schools behave.

The devs have stated that they intend the game to be a utopian society where child labor, political repression, and other Tropico-style stuff doesn't happen. They won't ban you for suggesting it, but they won't help you change how their game works either.