I think the way the students were handled at last night's meeting was about right. They were observers not participators. They had about the last 12 minutes to ask questions & they obviously came with a lot of prepared questions, most likely assigned to them by their teacher. It's a good thing they didn't start to ask questions until the meeting was close to over, or they would have used up the whole meeting with their questions. They even wanted our emails to send us questions! Because they had so many questions, breaking the students & participants into small groups was a good idea. The only suggestion I would make is to have the students ask their questions after the meeting is over at 7PM. That way, whoever wants to stay & answer questions could do so & it wouldn't cut into the time we have for our meeting. Of course, if we're expected to be out of the room by 7PM this wouldn't work.

I also attend the Riverside NSA meetings. Students were there this past Sunday & asked questions at the end. However, their questions didn't seem to be prepared and were much briefer. I guess they had a different teacher than last night's students.