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Originally Posted by F-ball
To slightly elaborate on the wrongdoings of some of the leaders, it mostly involved two students and mal-use of computers at school. The first of the students attempted to steal private data from a robotics computer, and was "caught" by the second student, who reported to the rest of the robotics leadership. The incident quickly escalated to the school administration, and some prior computer history of the second student was uncovered, which had nothing whatsoever to do with robotics. Although both suffered identical punisments from the school, including being kicked from the team, members of the team were in support of the second student, as he didn't do anything wrong regarding robotics, and indeed pointed out the wrongdoings of the first student to robotics.
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Doesn't matter. The second student violated school rules, and was punished as a result.
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More recently, the second student was there when the team was practicing in a different location on campus, and was reported by a teacher, which reduced credibility even further.
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And now you're getting the team in deeper and deeper. The team has defined itself as a rogue organization in the minds of the administrators - they don't accept the rulings on punishment for member's misdeeds. The second student was expelled from participating - why did the team let him be there?
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Also, the general trend among replies seems to be that we should continue trying to negociate with the school in one way or another. If this does not work out, however, how feasable would it be for us to run independent of the school, from some other location?
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You do need to continue to try to work with the school. Whether that means continuing as a school-sponsored activity or not, you still have to have a working relationship. You've gotten that rogue reputation, and that will be hard to overcome. If you split off on your own, you can expect very little cooperation between the team and the school. Would you have a place to meet? Would your sponsor(s) continue to support the team? - some give support to teams because they are supporting a school group. Would any teachers that you have as team mentors continue on? These kinds of questions all have to be answered before you make a decision to go independent.