What percentage of FRC teams should attend championships?

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Originally Posted by Alex2614

Okay, so who's going to pay 12k to go watch? Same argument. We have a hard time getting exempt absences when we are competing. Let alone just going to watch. They would never excuse our kids to go watch. Good luck getting many school boards to okay that.

I was going to bring that up. I don't think a lot of school districts are going to let kids cut school if they see no net benefit to them, unfortunately.

In Monongalia county, they just passed a policy limiting the number of days students can miss for a single activity. While we are not a school team (we are a community organization), we are sponsored by them and we are still governed by them somewhat loosely. We're going to have a hard time when we go into districts, let alone trying to get three days off of school to not even compete! That is 100% not going to happen.

Yeah, it's gotten to the point for the 2016 season we'll have to schedule whatever district events have S/S dates and take the good and the bad with region champs being over the high school's spring break if we want to go to another regional/district and champs if we qualify.