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To me, it sounds like the other extracurricular activities got wind that the robotics team wasn't being regulated and complained to the administration. At least, that sounds like the way it would go down in my school if there was a hour restriction on extracurriculars. But that's a pessimistic view.

Being optimistic, its nice that the school is concerned that students are spending a lot of time. If "your team "forced" students to be there for unreasonable amounts of hours in order to be considered on the team" (which I'm definitely not saying your team does! I totally wouldn't believe that!) then having restrictions would be good. But the student can leave at any time -- they don't need some sort of policy to "back them up". Besides, so Jim Bob logs the total allotted XX hours already on monday or tuesday...now he has the whole rest of the week to go sit on his butt at home? So like almost everyone else has said, just thank the administration for their concern and try to reason with them using facts such as "students get their homework done before they come to robotics" or "every member on the team has at least a B-" or whatever can apply to your team -- and if the student is starting to do poorly, then its up to them to make the right decision to leave and go study, afterall, this is high school, right? As someone else said, schools need to stop holding student's hands with regards to everything.