Advice for a team that has lost its school

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Originally Posted by TheOtherGuy

That said, I've also had time to think about the formation of a 501(c)3 organization. Now, I'm very split on the issue, so I'd like to open the discussion up a little more: would it be more beneficial for a team to continue their affiliation with a school, or create a city-wide non-profit organization open to students from any school (provided both are available options)?
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The way I see it, we can either fight for our right to be a team, or we can turn this little push by the administration around and become a much stronger, community-based team. Opinions?

Stay in your school. Looking at my own team as an example, recruiting is many times easier from in a school. We are based exclusively out of Brandon High School, but we also accept students from Holly High School. We still go do demos and push the administration as much as we can at Holly, but we only have about five Holly students out of thirty on the team, most likely because of a lack of presence. Brandon, while not quite a supportive student body, has much more chance to get exposed through our display cases and word of mouth from students and our two affiliated teachers, plus our official school demos.