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Originally Posted by jrw
Why not? If you join a football team there are certain expectations about your commitment - you don't get to skip every training session and expect to play in the grand final.
Why should mentors give up their time to help young people who might not even turn up?
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I understand and agree with this but I'm guessing that the OP's situation is such that, if they imposed this restriction then their team would drop to about 4 or 5 students. That is a problem that I don't yet know how to solve. Plenty of teams (including mine) do put a minimum hours requirement and a fundraising effort requirement on students for them to attend events/competitions but requiring the same for a student to stay on the team would often mean that your team size could drop by 80%.
In addition to that, there is no way I would have stayed with my high school if such requirements were imposed. FIRST has been one of the biggest contributes to what career I chose and where I am in life now and I would hate to think that 'young Mono' would have chosen to give up on Robotics because other clubs and sports teams were taking too much of my time. Just food for thought.