Should I disband my school club?

[Brian Le]

Title of thread says all. Should I disband my school's cube club? Reasons I want to:

1) No one attends
2) No one is interested anymore
3) Too stressful trying to get members coming in
4) Council has become disinterested.

What do you guys think? I'm more leaning to disbanding.

 

[Faz]

yes. If no-one is coming - what's the point.

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

No offense Brian, but I think you should disband it since it seems like nothin' is happening. =\

 

[fanwuq]

My school club is doing so much better... hehehe.

People are actually yelling at me for not attending the meetings (I'm too busy.)
Plenty of people enjoy the cube, but none are crazily obsessed about it.
Specify your situation. Do whatever you want.

There will be a lot more people who attend if you make the cubing club just a nice place to hang out rather than a society of nerds with only the purpose of learning how to solve the cube.

 

[d4m4s74]

I'd say keep the club but don't hold meetings till you have a few guys

 

[person917]

I have a school club but I have thought about getting rid of mine too. I started with 10-15+ and every week less kids would attend, after they learned beginners method they stop showing up. Now I only have me and 2-3 people in it. I only have meetings once a week for an hour/hour and a half.

I would say if you have at least 2 people or more who are there and you enjoy cubing with them keep it. If it comes to the point where you dread going get rid of it.

 

[Jhong253]

Same thing happened with my club. So many people got stressed out from trying to figure out the first layer of the LBL method... I tried my best to help them, but people in my school give up too easily.
I'd say that you should recruit more people who know how to cube (this is what I'm doing to slowly resurrect my club). Then teach more advanced methods, then you have more teachers available, so less pressure on you, and thus more people can come at a time.

 

[kickinwing2112]

My school club is doing so much better... hehehe.

People are actually yelling at me for not attending the meetings (I'm too busy.)
Plenty of people enjoy the cube, but none are crazily obsessed about it.
Specify your situation. Do whatever you want.

There will be a lot more people who attend if you make the cubing club just a nice place to hang out rather than a society of nerds with only the purpose of learning how to solve the cube.

where do you go to school? My town is a cubing whaseland accept for me and my friend. There are a couple of Dan Brown LBL solvers but I don't count them.

 

[AvGalen]

Title of thread says all. Should I disband my school's cube club? Reasons I want to:

1) No one attends
2) No one is interested anymore
3) Too stressful trying to get members coming in
4) Council has become disinterested.

What do you guys think? I'm more leaning to disbanding.

Your club has already disbanded

 

[fanwuq]

My school club is doing so much better... hehehe.

People are actually yelling at me for not attending the meetings (I'm too busy.)
Plenty of people enjoy the cube, but none are crazily obsessed about it.
Specify your situation. Do whatever you want.

There will be a lot more people who attend if you make the cubing club just a nice place to hang out rather than a society of nerds with only the purpose of learning how to solve the cube.

where do you go to school? My town is a cubing whaseland accept for me and my friend. There are a couple of Dan Brown LBL solvers but I don't count them.

I'm actually in the same situation. Most people in my cubing club can't solve the cube. The teacher has been solving cubes longer than I have and is still just as obsessed with it as me and that's all that matters...
Being a teacher, he is much better at teaching beginners than me. He teachers some sort of CF-LBL although he uses Petrus with OLL-PLL himself.

 

[Brian Le]

Alright, thanks all. Well, I guess I'll have to end the year first...

 

[d_sprink]

I would say not to end it - remember that you are fortunate enough to have enough people to have a school club in the first place.

 

[VirKill]

In my stupid opinion, people loves something they good at it. Especially in cubing. So, teach as many people as possible secretly, and make sure they are sub 60 or something. When you have more people that can solve Rubik's cube in slightly same amount of speed, then you can make em compete/race. Such small competition will make more people interested. It will also make the competitor feel special and make them more addicted to it.

And yes, for now disband your club, and start to make underground cubing movement....

 

[Edmund]

It's time to disband

 

[Lofty]

Eh, what kind of effort does it take to keep the club going? I have a club that has only about 4-5 people showing up including myself. Really all we do is just get together and cube which take anti-effort.
All that can happen is growth right?