FAHA: Overbearing parents

[Ken Leung]

Can robotics teams be ran successfully with a complete democratic decision making process? That is up to debate. I used to hate it when the team leader of my old team reject my ideas even though I thought they were the best thing ever. But as I gained more experience in the team, I started to understand those decision made by the team leader. Could I have understood those decision when I didn't know any better? Probably not. But I probably would've felt better if someone explained the decision to me, which is what happened.

Let listen to this FIRST-a-holic and his/her problem with his/her team's decision making process.

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this is suspost to be a club, where everyones vote on stuff should matter. but on our team, we have a problem. Our parent advisor have seemed to take over our program, and do whatever they please with it. i understand that tehy work hard, but they make desion with out the team, and when we have a team vote, and they disagree with what anyone says they become angry and stubborn and dont listen to anyone.

these parent and there son, seem not to care abotu anyof the students nor the team. they just want to see theyr son susceed. if any of the students tell any of the other students to try and find something to do at the meetings(instead of sitting there not doing anythign) these parents start to yell and screem and threatn to kick you off the team.

/rant (excuse my spelling and grammer)

if anyone know how we can deal with these parents, please help