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Re: Student Participation Agreement
I definitely agree with pretty much everything that has been said here.
Our team requires that students attend 80% of meetings in order to travel to the competitions, which is how we motivate attendance. If you do not WANT to go (I really can't imagine why, but in any case) you are not going to be forced to attend. We also have necessary 3.0 GPA to be in leadership, though if something sever happens, such as a health or family issue like I had last year, this can be excused or revised. I thought I had an electronic copy of the document, but it looks like I do not. If you're interested, you can PM me and I can get it or give you the contact for my coach and he would be able to provide you with it.
As far as general member GPA, no one is allowed to be failing a class, and I believe the minimum is a 2.0 (C average). Our school does not give D's, so that is pretty much the same as saying you cannot fail any classes. However, failing a class does not kick you off of the team, it simply means you cannot attend competitions. Also, our team is instituting a mandatory study period this year, to help students with their homework and grades. It looks like it is going to work very well. There are a few hours between the end of school and the start of our meetings, so there is about an hour in there that we go and work on our homework. That way students that are struggling can get necessary help from other students or from teachers (a lot of our teachers stay at school pretty late, and are very helpful). We are a small high school, and finally have all four grades (our school is only 4 years old, and we started with just my class of 08 as freshman) so the older students have already taken all of the classes and we are able and willing to help. Then there's a dinner break also before the meeting.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but it sounds like someone outside of the team is writing up this agreement? I don't understand how that could be applicable, because this person does not seem to understand your purpose. Our team came up with this agreement as a community decision with our coach, and everyone was encouraged to provide some input. We wrote a simple outline of the things that were needed to be addressed and then went through all of them as a team and put down all of the solid rules and qualifications.
I hope this was of some help, and feel free to contact me if you need anything, like a copy of our agreement.
Steph
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~Stephanie Morrison (Hoag)~
Student - Team 1983 (2007-2008)
Mentor - Team 190 (2009-2012)
Mentor - Team 1983 (2013-2014)
Mentor - Team 1318 (2015)
Coach - Apex Robotics 5803 (2016-Present)
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