[Jon Stratis]

Yes, it may be a natural conclusion, but when something like that happens, it should at the minimum cause the mentors for the team to reevaluate how they work with the students.

In my 10 years working with my team, we have never, not once, had a student leave because they couldn't find a way to work with the mentors or other team members - we always work at it until we find a way to make it work. We've had some leave because of conflicts with other activities (They prioritize theater or skiing or whatever over robotics and don't feel they can invest time in both), or because their parents had been forcing them to go and finally let the student make up their own mind (oddly enough, they usually come back after a year off in those situations!), and we've had plenty change how they work on the team by switching subteams/focus areas when they find the one they were in wasn't to their liking. But never has anyone left because of a conflict with a mentor or other student.