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Re: Where was the GP at Championships?
Excuse the odd reference, but I'm involved in my school's musical of South Pacific, so I'm stealing a line from that for the purpose of my statement: "You can't put back a petal when it falls from a flower." In other words, we can talk about what happened at Regionals and at Championships all we want to. We can express our disgust with the behaviours that we saw and hope that those reading this thread take it as a learning experience to keep better watch on their teams, or more seriously impliment the principles and basic moral values associated with GP. But what if that doesn't happen? What can we really do?
Discussing what happened in the past is great, as it helps us learn, but we can't truly do anything about it. We can call up those staffers at Nationals and make sure they were properly apologized to (In fact, that might be a decent idea... if it doesn't make you sound like a stalker), but that's just about it. Unless teams start teaching GP hardcore, then incidents like that are, unfortunately, going to continue to happen. You can't keep doing the same thing and teaching the same things and expect different results. If nothing changes in respect to how important GP is on your team's prioroty list, then the team will not hold GP any higher than they did in the previous year.
What needs to change is not necessarily the people, because the people can learn if they are taught. But that's the emphasis: IF THEY'RE TAUGHT. A lot of the blame in this thread has been put on the students/offending persons, as it should be. Ultimately, people are responsible for their own actions, but how do they learn? They learn the most from those who are their mentors. This doesn't mean the the mentors are "horrible people" or only "show unGP towards their teams," not at all. What it means is that MORE emphasis needs to be placed on GP on each and every FIRST team.
Until that happens, the number of incidents like this may decrease, but they will always be around, as sad as it makes me to say it.
P.S. If this offended anyone, I'm truly sorry, it was not my intention. I tried to be constructive in what I was saying while getting a point across, and I hope I succeeded in that. But if someone interprets something I've said in an offensive manner, please, let me know and I'll personally apologize to you. I don't want to anger/upset people today. =D
--Danni
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