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Originally Posted by Nemo
If your district has a policy that hurts the team, the best thing you can do is to educate everybody (administration, board, parents, etc) about all of the great things FIRST can do so they will be on your side. Have parents advocate for your team; the administrators and board members will tend to listen to what the parents have to say.
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I was going to say this, so I'll second it.
Address the problem. You need to set up a school board meeting where you demonstrate the robot, talk about the team, and then discuss the hardships and double standards you're seeing when trying to fundraise.
Be blunt about asking which benefits the students more: a stem program to teach leadership, science, technology and math, or a football program. Ask the hard questions.
It's easy to institute and maintain a double standard of unfairness when it is mostly hidden and no one has to deal with it directly. Bringing it out in the open is the best way to make these hidden roadblocks disappear.