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Re: At Competition

first off, girls do swear.
secondly, FIRST is very largely about replicating the real world. we do things now that we may be doing after college.
now please, show me an engineering firm that has a no swearing policy that is actually enforced. before I decided to become a teacher, I was an assistant technical director at a number of theatres. while back stage theatre is a bit dispaportionant with swearing to the rest of the world, when I would visit companies who make theatre equipment, who have a number of engineers working to create a better light, or a move efficiant tool, the amount of swearing I would hear from them would make me think they were a group of dockworkers(as the saying goes)
now I'm not saying lets just swear whenever we want. when I'm at the school, unless things are going really really bad(dewalt transmissions anyone?), I'll try not to swear infront of the students. and if the students swear for no reason, I will call them on it. and if they swear to another student, boy, they better hope I'm not in earshot. but at competition, unless a little kid is standing in our pit, I dont care if we swear when the bot is doing poorly, I dont care if we swear if it has reason. some times all someone needs in rough times is the satisfaction of yelling out a curse word. now if I were next to you, and swore, and you asked me to stop, yea, I would, but to make a rule about it, when its so increadibly different from the real world, would just be in my opinion stupid. I feel that if you have a problem with someone cursing, tell them, but unless theres a kid around us or something, dont expect everyone to change something that happens in the real world.
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