9th garde in the FRC?

[Mark McLeod]

I can see the principals problem if your middle school is grades 7-9 and your high school is grades 10-12.

Keeping the student bodies segregated for underlying parental, administrative, educational, and social reasons may be important.
If that's the case then the suggestion of using FTC as a transition step in the middle school may be more practical.
However, if meeting spaces and funding are limiting you to two FLL teams, then that may not work as an argument either unless one FLL team becomes an FTC team.