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Re: Ontario Moving to District Model in 2017

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Originally Posted by Kleiman View Post
I don't think I could have been more clear earlier with my numbers, but I will try one last time to reiterate and hopefully return to a meaningful discussion.

Now, it costs ~ $7500 CAD to go to 2 district events and ~$3000 to go to district champs. The TDSB cannot pay for all of that for every team. Instead, they have very generously offered $5000 CAD for districts and $1500 for district champs for every team (up to ~$6500 CAD like before).
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Originally Posted by MechEng83 View Post
That actually was very helpful in understanding the discrepancy in the "standard" experience switching to districts several people have described. I think I understand your frustration and feeling of being "priced out of the program, but I don't think FIRST is the culprit, at least not directly.
THANK YOU for these two posts. I was having trouble figuring out where the heck some of the numbers and concerns were originating from regarding expenses and what TDSB would pay for. In particular, that TDSB would not in fact be covering the entire initial registration (when it had sounded like they would only pay for half of it to cover 1 district event ie $2500USD).

As an outsider looking in, I might understand districts, but Ontario and Toronto are not wholly familiar.
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