Practicing after Ship - pros & cons

[Natchez]

Knowing that practicing after ship is legal (Q&A #1026) and if you have some thoughts concerning the pros and cons of practicing after ship, please share them. Let's keep the format very positive by sharing your pro or con and then defending it with a paragraph.

Let's wait until all of the pros and cons are known before refuting why a pro should be a con or vice versa. A classic example of where a pro can be a con on this topic relating to grades is

PRO: The students get to spend more time at robotics
Mentors often help students with their school work thus practicing gives students more time to be tutored by their mentors resulting in higher grades.

CON: The students get to spend more time at robotics
Students time is consumed by practice thus practicing does not allow students to give the needed attention to school work resulting in lower grades.


After most of the pros & cons are on the table, I will try to guide the discussion into phase II which will be discussing individual pros & cons. Hopefully by the end of this discussion, we will all have a good understanding of both sides of practicing after ship.

Please share your thoughts,
Lucien