[Ed Law]

Originally Posted by DaveL

My view of high school student behavior is that many students are motivated by deadlines.
We meet year round and only a hand full of students show up.
We get a big turnout on kickoff weekend and the last week of the build season.

On a side note, we only have a 5 week build season, because we take off the 3rd week to allow students to study for finals.
Do other teams have this constraint?

Dave
Mentor in the Pacific North West

In my early years as a coach, I also did not schedule meetings during finals week. Later on, I was asked by the seniors to not dictate that. They said I should schedule the optional meetings and whoever wanted to come can come. Many seniors who applied early decisions or early actions already knew where they were going before build season starts. It was their last year on the team. This is another example that mentors/coaches should check with students before implementing rules thinking they were doing the right thing.