[FrankJ]

That is a common attitude for schools. Not completely unfounded at least from their point of view. With public schools, this is often governed by district policy and not in control of the school. One thing to look at is were did the money come from to purchase the equipment. One of the teams we work with had a similar issue. It took a visit from the team sponsor (major corporation not to be named) to get the school to release the equipment and only then to another non profit, not directly to the team.

Maybe as a compromise ask for the FRC specific stuff?