[Gdeaver]

On the subject of selectivity. I want to bring up a subject that has and is currently causing big problems for our team. What do teams do about students that apply that have "special needs". We are a private team and we as mentors simply can not handle the needs of some of the students that have been on our team. Last year our inability to handle one student almost destroyed our team. This year our FTC team some how ended up with half the students being in this category. We tried putting questions on the application. Parents lied. Parents of these children tend to be of the steam roller type. I believe the current situation in the school district forces these parent to become very demanding and combative to get the school system to deal with their child. They carry this over to their interactions with our team. We have a good group of mentor and I feel that every year we give students a great experience. However, we are not trained special education educators and I do not volunteer my valuable time to be a baby sitter. The time during meeting that I have to spend to keep control of certain students is detracting my time from the other students. It's not fair. We can't be the only team facing this. How do other team deal with this problem?