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Unread 31-05-2013, 06:11
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Re: Going to a FIRST event is apparently not a field trip

What I find interesting about your post is that you have the opportunity to be on a school related FIRST team, yet you choose to be on the 4H team. The administration may view this similar to someone playing a club sport rather than the school's sponsored team. While you see it as we both went to the same place, you certainly took different routes. Another thing you failed to mention what you're attendance policy is...how many absences vs unexcused absences. Did these members already have ten absences from school and these just put them over the line? Your parent has the right to pull you out of school at any point, but the school ultimately makes the decision about excused v unexcused. Also, I question the rookie status of a team that has multiple members who may have been on a FRC team before. You did not say whether this group participated in the school sponsored team at some prior point. Your school may not want to set a precedent for future years that choosing that non school team is acceptable. (Just playing devil's advocate).
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