[Jon Stratis]

I can add that, as far as my team goes, those two issues are no where to be seen. For us, we have established rules in our handbook that lay out the requirements to travel with the team. If you don't meet those requirements, you don't travel. For travel, when we travel as a team we do so on a bus. There are some exceptions made for travelling with parents when needed (for example, if a few students can't attend the first day of competition and need to drive down the next). When we do stuff here in town, the event officially starts on-site, and everyone is responsible for their own travel.

For your situation, I can understand if there are certain distance limits placed on what could be considered local, versus what would require team-provided transportation. Asking a dozen or more families to all drive independently an hour or more away for an event does put a large burden on the families. And JUMPSTART and any event in the Cities is going to be an hour or more drive for you guys.

I certainly hope you can find room to work with your school to relax some of these constraints, but try to go into the discussion with an open mind and a willingness to learn why the constraints are in place. Maybe if you can understand the reasoning behind them, you can help the school find alternate ways to satisfy that reasoning.