Our schools' only support is the teachers who work with the team. I'm pretty sure that no financial support is given. In fact, I'm pretty sure we have to pay to use school buses and everything.
Schools just don't quite grasp the concept of FIRST yet. This fall, our school's girls basketball team was district champions (they beat 8 other teams). They school scheduled an entire assembly to celebrate. What happened when our team won the Newton Division at the championship? Nothing. What about when we won GLR this year? Nothing yet, but we'd like to change that
The good news is, our superintendent came a competitin for the first time last weekend. Hopefully this will get our team some more respect/recognition at school.