[Lisa Rodriguez]

discrimination is a very hard thing to deal with and is sometimes and unspoken problem on my team
One of our team mentors thinks that the drive team should be an equal representation of the team rather than the people best qualified for the job. Because our team goes from urban to suburban to rural towns, there is a great mix of culture, so therefore making an equal representation is hard. What this mentor has often done is chosen the drive team without consulting the team members at all [which had been done in the past] Bascially he put one caucaisian boy, one african american boy, one hispanic boy and one girl, now I would see no problem with this drive team if I knew that they were the best people for the job, but they were not, drivers were put on the "b" team because of their race or sex, which was very wrong, and does not give us the best representation on the field.
No one has ever approached our mentor because he is the team leader, and he doesn't always listen anyway, but opinions have been expressed to various adults and they are trying to talk to our mentor
also a minor discrimination problem, seniors
now i love seniors, and I am friends with every single one of them that is on our team, but them being picked over better underclassmen or making decisions that affect the drive team without consulting the team or adult is a problem, and example of this is last yeat [2001] when I tried to become a human player and my brother [a senior at the time and the arm driver] decided that he didn't want me on the drive team because me being on stage somehow made him angrier and less able to control himself, even though I never even spoke to him when we were up there. a LARGELY unfair situation that honestly, no one on my team did anything about, most due to the fact that my brother was worshiped as a god [why, i will never know]