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Re: Student Expectations for Travel

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A tip for dealing with meals. We had an issue this year where after collecting the tab for our meal ended in a huge difference between what people gave for their meal+tip and the total. In the future we plan to keep one of the menus along with a notebook and go around writing down what each student ordered and calculate the tip so every person knows exactly what they owe. Splitting up $600 tabs is not easy!
This is an EXCELLENT idea. Thank you!

Our kids are generally really good about curfew and staying in their rooms at night because they're exhausted from competition (we're doing something right!) so taping doors isn't an issue.

We do plan on having a parent/student meeting perhaps in December or RIGHT at the beginning of build season to lay down expectations for the build season, travel, etc. Will probably have another one before we go to our first competition. I feel like some of that will help with the students having enough money for meals issue.
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