[Doug G]

I can understand how this can happen on a "school" based team that delivers a program that attracts more and more students each year. This upcoming year, I am transitioning my team to a purely extra-curricular team as more and more students enroll in the engineering technology pathway courses at our school. Ross is correct, FIRST doesn't scale well within a traditional school that has curricular objectives in which every student needs to meet.

But I don't understand why they can't keep their team as an extra-curricular activity? That seems quite odd and at some point someone had to decide not to pursue this alternative... why?