I can't interact with classmates in HSY!!!

I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm complaining about the Sims (I promise I'm not, just a little confused and I didn't really know what subreddit to ask this on)

I recently got the HSY pack and I love it so so much but when I started actually playing with teens at the high school I noticed that I couldn't do any of the normal interactions (eg. funny, friendly, mean etc..) And it only came up with a few school-specific ones like 'Ask about ___ club', or 'spread rumour about someone'. I was wondering if there was something off with my game or if that's just how it is because I kind of want to actually interact with other students 😭. Not sure if this is also related to it but there are a few specific sims that I really want my sim to become friends with but the only option that comes up for each category is 'give gift' and I was wondering if there's any fix for this!

SS of my little gift giving glitch (?)

(BTW this is a photo showing what I can see)

Thanks!! (And sorry if this isn't the place to ask questions like this lol)