School Administration troubles

[F-ball]

Since its founding several years ago, our school's robotics team has participated in many regionals, and attended nationals once. Like with any other team, our alumni have found the experience to be highly worthwhile, and we have received some attention from local newspapers and such.

Recently, however, some of the robotics leadership got into some non-robotics related trouble, and as a result, the school administration has lost its faith in both the leadership and the club as a whole. As such, it looks like the school is pulling the plug on our robotics program after this competition season. Many, if not all, of the students on the team are still in avid support of our robotics team, and do not want to forever lose this opportunity to participate in an organization such as FIRST. We are now starting to consider our only remaining option of removing any affiliation that we have with our school, and becoming completely independent of it. We understand that it will be difficult to fund raise, find a location to work in, and attract membership, but it doesn't seem as if we have much of a choice.

Seeing that this is a very controversial issue, we were wondering about the opinions of the rest of the FIRST community about this situation.