[Mr_I]

I appreciate all the feedback from everyone, it really is helpful.

To provide a few more data points to consider ... ours is a private Catholic school, not connected with any local school board. The students have come from other towns, sometimes from schools without FIRST teams (which no one has issues with), and sometimes from schools with FIRST teams (which is the sticking point). As friendly as we like to think we are in FIRST, the neighboring schools do have a rivalry in most other sports and activities.

So, I suppose the question should be: What do people think about joining a FIRST team in another school when your school has a team?