School Problems

[Elgin Clock]

I think this is a perfect opportunity to test FIRST's newest system that is in place.

Namely, if you have tried communicating with your school by yourselves to no avail, contact your FIRST Senior Mentor for some help in dealing with them.

Sometimes it's not what you know going into a battle, but who you know.

I strongly hesitate to use the word battle, but it seems like all other non-invasive ways of contacting your school district is not working.

Maybe having a spokesperson for the organization you are aligned with, namely the Senior Mentor representing FIRST, you will have some ground to stand on.

I'm not sure who your FIRST Senior Mentor would be in your area, but hopefully someone else may know.

Good Luck, and we hope to see you back competing in FIRST in no time.

[Cuog]

With the issue on power tools our school requires an adult to be in the room where we are working and for us to be allowed into the room we and our parents must sign a safety form, you may want to recomend some sort of policy like that to your school if its not in place already, they will like it alot more than the though of kids alone with power tools.

But definately talk with you senior mentor from FIRST as well as have parents talk to the school those are the best ways to et things done, wait to alert the media until nothing else works because calling the media is not going to make your school very happy with you

[sanddrag]

Go see the movie Fun with Di ck and Jane and maybe try something like that. Maybe not as elaborate or illegal, but publically make them look good and then how can they say no?