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Personally, I don't think it's that good an idea. And here's why: you're trying to make high school into college. High school is to prepare students for college and to accomplish that high school should focus on the basics (as they do now). While FIRST is a great program, when it enters the curriculum it should be limited at best. Because whenever you add something to the curriculum you take away from something else. And if you take FIRST to the core of the curriculum you're going to be taking away from the preparedness of students. The students coming out will probably do real well in engineering, but fail miseribly at everything else. While I think schools should do more with FIRST, trying to go too far would be bad.
Matt
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