[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

Gary might be hinting at the possibility of exploiting any double standard that might exist.

This is true. However, I'm pointing out that if the sports folks are smart, they've avoided the issue entirely.

On a somewhat-related note, I know of a case where there was a schedule conflict with the FE exam. This was resolved by moving one of the dates balk a couple of weeks--now the same people are complaining about running into graduation weekends. Note that there is another event in the same competition, on another month...

Sooner or later, everyone runs into something like this. You have to adapt. My comments earlier about getting the district to help with funding for an outside-the-state event were meant to highlight, for the district, that by enforcing the rules, they would be losing some money (per-student payments from whoever gives those, possibly even more due to helping the team compete elsewhere, etc.)