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Unread 07-05-2010, 19:33
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Re: Limits on Team Hours

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
I come from smaller schools so my experience is different, but generally when academic performance falls, administration may encourage / make students drop clubs until their grades rebound, even if they're not at probationary levels. Teams I've been on also do grade checks and at the very least talk with students when these things happen, possibly encouraging students to miss meetings to make up for work.
The school in question is only 280 students, so the capability for individualized education is definitely there (and seems to exist based on the posts from 1540). But that doesn't mean you throw all regulations out the window, either. It was mentioned that all extracurriculars had caps, and robotics had somehow managed to avoid them previously.

It's most likely possible to grant individual exceptions to the rule in the right scenario, but to not have the rule to begin with because you're going to make individual judgments eliminates the impetus to budget your time beforehand.
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