[JakeGallagher]

Our school is being dumb like that too. There's a new policy starting up next fall that a teacher MUST fill out a 5-page form to use his or her room after or before school hours, or during their fpanning period. These are the times when we usually work on the robot!
As well as this policy, we can't update our team's website from anywhere but at school, WHILE logged in as a network manager or administrator...and I think there's a grand total of ZERO team members who have that, so we need to give the updates to our coach, who then sends the update to the server, and *hopes* it will work.
Another problem we have had is one that makes me really mad. Last year, we were on the winning alliance at the Chesepeake Regional in Annapolis. When we got home, our coach asked if we could hang our banner in the gym, as every other team in the school does that if they win something. Guess what the answer was? NO! Imagine that! Do you know what their rationale was? "The FIRST Club is not a team." They called us a club. A CLUB! Even though we're Team #134, they called us a club. We fought with them for a few months, and in september they finally hung our banners, but they were hung off to the side, so that when they drew the curtain to make the gym two basketball courts, the banners would be easily hidden.
What is with this? Are our schools ashamed that they have smart people attending?