Building just isn't a priority anymore

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

They can always sue you for anything; suing and winning is the tricky part. Besides, although it's not quite clear-cut, the odds are very good you can't personally be held liable, even if you did personally discriminate on the basis of a medical condition. Employment law doesn't apply because you're not an employer, you're not an agent of the state so you have no constitutional duty not to discriminate, and you're presumably a minor. (Your teachers and school administrators, on the other hand, have more limited protections—but I do know that in California, some state agents are shielded from personal liability in the course of their work.)

So I think a reasonable policy, equitably applied, would be at virtually no risk of exposing you to liability, even if it was necessary to treat the autistic students somewhat differently. (There might be grounds for striking it down, if it was official school policy.)

Unfortunately, whether the team breaks up or not is an administrative decision at some level. That's certainly something to be concerned about, if you believe that those in positions of power would not side with you.

It's not me I'm worried about, I'm safe. It's the team I'm worried for. Some of these people are nice, intelligent students, who benefit our team greatly. It's just that there are a few that don't do anything, and make us look like a bad team. Even worse, they invite their friends over, who don't want to do robotics, and end up using our computers to play minecraft the whole day. This has meant a major loss of productivity over this past year, and it made our already small building room seem more crowded.