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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
Not to descend into my standard winter/spring behavior too early, but why does this matter if there isn't really a lot of teeth to this? I think it's a step forward but how is this actually supposed to be enforced significantly better than what we had before?
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Does it need to be enforced? Or does the FIRST ethos of Gracious Professionalism ensure that there's no need to enforce it, so long as everyone is aware of a consistent set of definitions?
Part of the problem we've had in the past, I think, is teams taking credit for "starting" or "mentoring" a team that existed in their school system, even if they didn't have much interaction with them - after all, if they held a kickoff event the team attended, or talked with them once or twice during the season, that's interaction enough, right? Some people/teams may have said so honestly while others did not. Now the new definitions give teams a benchmark to measure themselves against, something they have never had before.