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Originally Posted by waialua359
No offense, but I just went through two years of furloughs (coming in every single one of those days for robotics) and now our State mandated pay cuts, increased health care costs....i.e. our portion, and continued furloughs when our current governor did the George Bush "Read my Lips," No More Furloughs.
Our pay has NOT kept up with inflation.
Instead, the attitude is to do MORE with less to allow our students the same, if not more, opportunities with participation in FIRST.  |
I agree with you on the sentiment of trying to do more with less. However, as the real price drops and FIRST is receiving less revenue per team in registration costs, if FIRST tries to account for that through cuts, quality is going to inevitably drop over time. The drop for one year may not be noticeable but over a period of years it is going to start to stand out.
Granted, maybe there are some things should've been cut a long time ago, but once all of those have been cut, the only things left are those that really affect the core experience of FIRST. Then if further cuts are made the quality
will go down. I think we are really starting to see that now.