[Matthew936]

This is the real question. Most of the people on the school boards are fairly certain that nothing will happen to the students if they go. They also know that the students are willing to take the risk involved in traveling. Here lies the problem there are some people in any community with nothing better to do than to find a cause and defend it. Even if that cause only causes trouble. The problem is that these individuals are the ones who let the world know how they feal and they often vote in large percentages. Now these often uninformed people usually worry about anything that can go wrong. The members of the school board must deal with them often and quite frankly don't enjoy it. So the members rather than deal with these people decide that it is better just to do what they want rather than look at what is best for the students. Is this wrong? No, because they are representing the interests of those that they hear loudest from. Unless you plan on taking not just yourselves, but many voters as you can, then things will not change. If the community will support you then the Board will allow you to go for fear of thier jobs.