[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by EricH

Watching (NOT COMPETING) is free registration. The original comment was specifically stating watching. Knocks off $5K.

Also, 10 hotel rooms? For 20 people? I'd think that 6-7 would be more likely (unless the district had some really nasty rules about students/room, or there was some other oddball case involved)--usually you'd get about 4 students/room, but add in a couple of rooms for mentors (typically 1-2/room). Knocks off about another $1K.

So... 6K for the bus, 4K for the hotel, hard to argue the meals unless the people in question buy them themselves. So that's $10K-12K, not counting lost pay (which... I'm not entirely familiar with how that works for teachers, but don't teachers get vacation time, or is all of that in summer/breaks?).

Okay, so who's going to pay 12k to go watch? Same argument. We have a hard time getting exempt absences when we are competing. Let alone just going to watch. They would never excuse our kids to go watch. Good luck getting many school boards to okay that. In Monongalia county, they just passed a policy limiting the number of days students can miss for a single activity. While we are not a school team (we are a community organization), we are sponsored by them and we are still governed by them somewhat loosely. We're going to have a hard time when we go into districts, let alone trying to get three days off of school to not even compete! That is 100% not going to happen.