Jacob said:
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Originally Posted by whytheheckme
On my team, there are 4 students going to ATL on Wed. night. Some of them asked if they could go to the 'prom'. The answer was immediatly 'no', because the rest of the team wasn't there, and it would not be fair to them. Just because these students were fortunate enough to qualify to come early (the rest of the team is coming late thurs night to save $ on hotel) doesn't mean that you can go out and do things without the rest of the team. If the team doesn't go, you don't go. Period.
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To which Tom asked:
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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
I agree with most of your points, but I don't really understand this one. To me, thats like saying if one team member cant raise the money to go to the event, no one can.
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As a mentor of Jacob's team, I will answer that question. First, Jacob did not quite represent the situation clearly (!) The students going to Atlanta early will be arriving Wed. night, while the team is arriving Thurs. night. The team has dinner and a meeting planned for Thursday night, and the mentors did not think it would be feasible for the team to go to the 'prom'. Because the students arriving on Wed. are part of the team, they are required to do the activities that the team is doing on Thursday. It would not be right for them to go to the prom while the team is arriving, and miss the team events.
As several people have mentioned in this thread, every team has their own decisions to make, and it is interesting to see how we all arrive at those decisions. Of course, we all have our own background situations within our own teams which influence our decisions. It is not one team or person's place to judge decisions made by another team. That really should be the point of this thread. I can see how the point that Jacob was trying to make was borne from the original post, but it really is a different discussion.