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Originally Posted by sanddrag
If it's a school program, bound by school rules, then the school district should be paying for the bus. If it's their rule, they need to foot the bill. End of story.
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Unfortunately that is not how things generally work where I am located. Each department is responsible for paying for their own transportation to and from events regardless of what their event is. Athletics has to pay for travel to and from all sporting events, UIL money pays for transportation to UIL events, in my case my CTE director (because I am a CTE teacher) pays for our buses out of CTE budget.
School budgets are already strapped and - once again in my case - our bus fees are in the neighborhood of $3.50/mile and the driver gets $9.00/hour + overtime (when we travel out of town overnight we have to pay the driver 24/7). Expensive? Absolutely. Ways around it? That's up to each district.
TLDR; Travel is expensive and the money has to come from somewhere. School budgets are insanely tight - just ask any teacher who is in a district that serves a community that is losing jobs, industry, and money. The money for competitions and travel has to come from somewhere.