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Originally Posted by Basel A
They must have a staff member present while meeting at the school, which does make sense of course. Though I don't know if that's required to be the official staff advisor, or if they could just sit in their room grading papers.
Besides, I'm sure after a couple build meetings, the staff advisor would be interested to keep coming.
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I think that's a pretty fantastic leap of faith. I don't know how often that particular team meets, but I'd hazard the average FRC team meets at least 8 hours a week? That's another 20% commitment that the teacher isn't getting paid for (or even with a stipend, isn't getting adequately compensated for). On top of that, I'm sure being the school liaison comes with its own host of headaches of when you can be there, when you can't, when you must clean out by, extra meetings, etc. You've gotta love it to do it, and I think the size of FRC indicates that there are a lot of people that do love it (at least for the first few weeks!
) . But not everyone does, or even has the time to try. If the full time college student workload is close to the full time teacher workload, I totally understand why they would not want the commitment.