give me advice on our 'BOARD'

[Kristina]

Well I think that this problem could be allieviated in the future by altering the ratio on the board. You have more parents than any other group which is great that they want to get involved, but this is really about the students. On our team the students and advisor make all the desicions and the parents help out at fundraising events, lending homes for building/meetings, food, etc.

Anyway, what I would do now is have the rest of the student members on the team ban together and decide as a group what they want and present it to the parents. State your unified case logically and hopefully they will listen. I would assume that you the students are the ones out there every day working, therefore you should also know what will be best for competition as far as driver selection (I mean, I could see where parent intervention would be needed but this wouldn't be it). Remember that FIRST is about high school'ers learning and if parents make a desicion that the majority of students are unhappy with, that defeats the purpose.