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Re: Lettering in FIRST

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Originally Posted by monster1018 View Post
My perspective about this subject is that lettering was originally meant for sports only. In recent years Ive seen people getting letters for band (which i think is wrong), and other activities like that. I think that the letter jackets should be strictly for sports because that's their tradition. We have plenty here at first but we are only an organization (a GREAT organization at that).
Why do you think lettering in band is wrong? I understand the tradition that it is sports, but hasen't our society come further than that, to be that closeminded? If we thought that way about everything, think about how different our society would be. There might not even be no FIRST if Dean Kamen hadn't broken tradition. Then there wouldn't even be a point to us arguing about letters. What kind of world would we live in, then? Maybe this is a little overdramatic, but there's a whole underlying point. You get recognized for many different things; what if you couldn't play a sport, but you were a great student, or mucisian, or were a great programmer? Wouldn't you want to be recognized for any of that, and somebody tells you that you couldn't get a jacket because you didn't, couldn't, play a sport? I'm sorry, but that seems unfair to me. I'm all for tradition, but to a point.

Jane, I really liked your story. To me, that really is the whole point of getting recognized. You put in time, heart, and effort into something that you didn't have to do, but did anyway, and turned something bad into something positive.
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