FAQs

Does FFA membership affect my child’s grade in your class?

• Our passion is to provide students countless opportunities to learn, grow, and be successful beyond the classroom. FFA membership is not required for the course your child is enrolled in, and membership will not affect his or her grade. We do highly encourage students to get involved, though!  In Principles of Ag, there is an FFA unit where students will be tested on FFA history and information.  Students will memorize the FFA Creed - per standardized state requirement.  

How do I get involved?

• The first FFA meeting is on August 25th at 6 PM.  There will be a parent introductory meeting where we talk about opportunities and scholarships, while the students will have their kickoff meeting! 

How do I join a team?

• Talk you your ag teacher and watch the board for team tryout and practice information

When are FFA practices held? 

• Practices are held before and/or after school.  

What if my child is in athletics, band, UIL, theater, etc? Can they still be involved in FFA too?

• We work with the students’ athletics, band, theater, etc, schedules to try to accommodate the majority of the students on a team.  If there are multiple schedule conflicts on a potential team, we may shuffle the students around to best suit their schedules.  There is some give and take during competition season, but all of your child’s coaches will work with us to make schedules work for the betterment of the student.  We want students to be involved all over campus!

When and where are FFA contests?

• FFA trains and competes all year long, but it is divided into “seasons.” Due to the fact FFA competitions are not divided by school size (like athletics), we compete all across the state.  Since we coach multiple teams that are very successful, we teachers drove over 7,000 miles last year.  Students on teams will be required to travel.  We use the school district vehicles to transport students to these events. If a child is competing in another school event, we may ask a parent to meet us somewhere with their child.

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How much is this travel going to cost me?

• Competition and travel are expensive, but we work hard to raise money to ensure the students rarely have to pay for anything.  We are blessed to have FFA t-shirt sponsors that generously support our program financially.  If you know of anyone who would like to provide a sponsorship, please let us know.  We also have a meat, dessert, spice, and coffee fundraiser each fall that we ask all FFA members to actively participate in to help raise funds for supplies and travel. With this money, the FFA covers contest entry fees, hotel rooms, and transportation.  For overnight trips, students will get per diem meal money.

• Students will purchase their own team shirts, but we can find sponsorships if needed.  Students will pay for their own meals or bring a sack lunch for day-only trips.