Thread: When do mentors go too far?
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Re: When do mentors go too far?
There is another side to the “When do mentors go too far?” coin. Please read the following excerpt that I Googled and copy pasted here. Names have been changed so as not to embarrass this teacher, who IMO, is a much more common example of a mentor that has gone too far.



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Originally Posted by Anonymous FIRST web page
Read this page daily for Important announcements for US FIRST Robotics:

Last updated by Coach SMITH:

Friday and Saturday, Feb 13 and 15, 2004 -
1) Attending were -- NOBODY (except Coach SMITH). Both days. I was there from 3:30 until 8 pm (non-stop, no breaks, no food, no drink) on Friday and from 9 am until 6 pm (non-stop, no breaks, no food, and I wimped out and had a bottle of juice). Having a great time, doing a lot of work, learning a lot of things I wish you were learning, too. Wish you were here!
2) Xxx Xxxxx is closed on Sunday (otherwise I would be there) and is closed on Monday (will be at Science Olympiad at school from 9 am until 3 pm). MH will be open on Tuesday through Friday from 3:30 pm until 9 pm and on Saturday from 9 am until 6 pm. I am committed to work with Science Olympiad on Tuesday and Thursday, but I will go to MH after we are finished on those days which will be about 5 pm.
3) We made a committment to Mr. Cxxxxxxxx and to NASA to spend the $6000 grant well. That means, build a robot and compete. If we do not compete, we will have a hard time getting the second year grant. No grant, no robot, no robotics team.
4) I am going to my daughter's Junior Parent Weekend at college and will not be able to work Saturday the 21st. I will lose about 9 hours of working time. I am hoping to get someone to step up and fill in for me.
5) The robot must be picked up by FedEx by 5 pm on Thursday, February 26, or we are disqualified from all tournaments and the robotics competition season is over. I can work at most maybe 3 hours Tuesday (Feb 17) , 5 hours Wednesday (Feb 18), 3 hours Thursday (Feb 19), 5 hours Friday maybe (Feb 20), none Saturday, 5 hours next Monday (Feb 23), 3 hours Tuesday (Feb 24), 5 hours Wednesday (Feb 25). Part of that will be building the shipping crate and getting the robot ready to ship on Thursday afternoon. In other words, unless we can get some folks (teacher(s) or parent(s)) to fill in for me, we don't have much time left. If we can get some folks in on Saturday in shifts, we can pick up an extra 9 hours on top of these 29 hours I can possibly attend. That gives us a potential of almost 38 hours. From what I have accomplished myself in the last 14.5 hours, we should be OK. Of course, this assumes I drop everything else in the rest of my life for the next 10 days.