[philso]

I spoke with a teacher here in Houston who was running FLL programs and was having trouble with the school administration (probably not as bad as you are having). She did have a lot of interest from the students and parents. She was able to get the parents to organize and lobby the school and demonstrate their high level of interest. Fortunately, the message got through and the school changed it's mind. At that time I spoke with her, she was only teaching robotics classes and was looking for a teacher to take over teaching some of those classes so she could return to her original job at the school, teaching biology. I hope your team can have a "happy ending" something like this one too.