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Originally Posted by teachsail
There doesn't seem to be a split between Amir, based on the four articles I have read on this topic, the other teachers and the Dos Pueblos administration. In my opinion the back story is Amir wants his life back. Amir then came up with a replacement project that he considered equal to or better then FRC, he convinced the principal and the letter was written.
Creating an extra curricular team may not have even occurred to Amir. Hopefully the students and mentors who are upset, according to the articles, will step up and either resurrect the 1717 team or start a rookie team. Then they will see why lead mentors get burned out. When teams stop competing the number one reason, in my experience, is the lead mentor can't go on any longer.
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Pretty sure Amir didn't coach the team this year, so he already had his "life back".
There are plenty of teams across the country every year that get declawed or axed by school boards for a variety of reasons, and these decisions come with various levels of pushback. The only difference here is that this is the most high profile FRC team shuttering in a while.