Thread: Frank Answers Fridays: Expanded Championship Qualification
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Unread 26-07-2014, 12:17
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Re: Frank Answers Fridays: Expanded Championship Qualification
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Originally Posted by MooreteP View Post
High Schools will need to buy more deeply into this program to make a longer season work.
Agreed. In preparation for the 2015 FRC season, I've already worked 180 hours, and it's not even August 2014 yet. School boards typically see a year long class as about 180 hours, and they have difficulty wrapping their head around paying teachers/coaches/advisors for more than that. In some cases, it can become an equity issue with teachers in other extracurricular programs.

As the schedule currently stands, it already takes far more than 180 hours per school year to run a comprehensive successful FRC team. If it expands to much more than currently, you're going to see two things happen: the quality of the program will fall, and adults will drop out because the time commitment required.
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