Let me just say that there's a whole lot of people chiming in here that I don't think have any real insight into this discussion on "ghetto".
Eastside Memorial High School, a 'borderline failing' high school which replaced an actually 'failed' high school, used to host FRC Team 3320, which I helped mentor from 2013 until they disbanded mid-season in 2015. This school serves a very poor population, with 86.9% of students listed as "Economically Disadvantaged" on
the school's webpage.
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Originally Posted by chapman1
how do you think you would feel to read comments that essentially make fun of anything you and your team tried to do with limited resources?
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Those kids wouldn't make that connection at all. Time and effort turns scraps into elegant, functional robots. Just because you have limited resources doesn't mean you make ghetto robots, and it especially doesn't mean that you think others are making fun of you when they say their own stuff is ghetto. It's a bunch of self-deprecating humor and generally fond memories of fun build sessions making funny mechanisms. Have a laugh about it.
Now, implying that those kids think everything they'd ever made
must be crap because the team didn't have resources, that I have a problem with.