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Originally Posted by hardcopi
Here is my unwanted 2 cents on this. I don't like the idea, It seems to me that First's biggest draw (well one of them) is being inclusive. We have never asked a student if they were gay, straight, black, white, male, female... none of that really matters. We have had LGBT students and it really was no big deal.
I don't particularly care for separating out a group of students/mentors for any reason. I'd be against it if it were a group like: "First Democrats" or "First Republicans" or "First ????" We are one community, separating us out for any arbitrary reason is kinda against what I thought we were all working towards.
Rich.
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I totally agree with this statement. I don't see any reason to separate out any group of kids. FIRST seems to be a pretty inclusive group and doesn't seem to have a major issue with discriminating. It is the same thing with girls in STEM events. I always feel awkward in those.
Besides if we have groups for LGBQ, shouldn't we have them for African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Christians, Muslims, Jews, whites, straights, and every other defining group? If we have it for one, others will follow with other groups. Instead of diverse teams and forums like CD, we get small forums such as mentioned above.
FIRST has been such a great organization to me because teams and youth focus on robots instead of all the political correctness everywhere. Please don't bring it here.