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Our school is sort of a mixed bag so to speak. Our board is sort of weird. Just the other day, they sent home a letter that said that if something in PA state legislature gets passed, they may have to shut down ALL extra-curricular activities. sounds like manure (or other word) to me because just a couple years ago, they spent like a million bucks on getting Nexturf for our football field and about 1/2 mill just this year cause the lights on the field are "too bright." However, we do get on the announcements and stuff and I don't think we get a lot of resistance to going away although I'm not the coach so I don't know everything that is going on. Grades do have to be up for us to go on trips, but that's a given.

Yearbook I think we got a page or two last year, but my name and one other team member's name was spelled wrong and my name has 4 letters (but it's not fred). I guess our board is okay, but our coach does have to do a lot of campaigning and arguing for us.

I think this whole thread is pathetic in that the schools shouldn't be needed to be argued with to support an organization like FIRST. I mean, what is school for anyway. I am not the hardest-working school student and stuff, but I do work a lot on robotics stuff. As for other students at school, they see battle bots and missing school. Nothing about what really goes on. I.E., us winning the Chairmans Award twice in a row means nothing to most students even though it probably gives our high school a great reputation in the FIRST community.