TIme off?

[the man]

We just ask nicely and in advance. Our school has never cared they know that extracurricular some times demand some time for events. Our marching band takes 3-4 days (total) to go to state and nationals events.

[EricH]

How about not having all of the students go to all of the events, or all days of all events? For example, let's say that you have 30 students and 3 events (2 regionals + Championship). Regional 1 is your "home" regional, Regional 2 is your "away" regional.

Regional 1, everybody goes to. It's close. Maybe half the team shows up late-ish on Thursday, the other half shows up late-ish on Friday, something like that. I've been known to not be at a regional until lunchtime Friday, or to take off early on Thursday and show up late Friday to deal with schoolwork.
Regional 2, between 15 and 20 students go to the event. Choose however you need to.
Championship, 15-20 students, but preference is given to those who did not go to Regional 2, or who are critical to the team's operation.

This is assuming, of course, that the school objects to every student going to every event. If they don't have any objection, then take as many as you want to to each event.

[lemiant]

Originally Posted by EricH

How about not having all of the students go to all of the events, or all days of all events? For example, let's say that you have 30 students and 3 events (2 regionals + Championship). Regional 1 is your "home" regional, Regional 2 is your "away" regional.

Regional 1, everybody goes to. It's close. Maybe half the team shows up late-ish on Thursday, the other half shows up late-ish on Friday, something like that. I've been known to not be at a regional until lunchtime Friday, or to take off early on Thursday and show up late Friday to deal with schoolwork.
Regional 2, between 15 and 20 students go to the event. Choose however you need to.
Championship, 15-20 students, but preference is given to those who did not go to Regional 2, or who are critical to the team's operation.

This is assuming, of course, that the school objects to every student going to every event. If they don't have any objection, then take as many as you want to to each event.

I was just talking about mission critical members (drive team, pit crew, scouting and Programing), we live in a place where bringing 30 kids to all of our regionals could get expensive.

[EricH]

I'm not entirely certain you read me correctly. I did NOT say that you should bring all your team members to all your events.

What I said was that not everyone has to go to every event. This does include mission-critical members. You should have a backup for every one of those, just on general principles. And if you have to due to school objections, the backup should go instead of the primary.

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by EricH

How about not having all of the students go to all of the events, or all days of all events? For example, let's say that you have 30 students and 3 events (2 regionals + Championship). Regional 1 is your "home" regional, Regional 2 is your "away" regional.

Regional 1, everybody goes to. It's close. Maybe half the team shows up late-ish on Thursday, the other half shows up late-ish on Friday, something like that. I've been known to not be at a regional until lunchtime Friday, or to take off early on Thursday and show up late Friday to deal with schoolwork.
Regional 2, between 15 and 20 students go to the event. Choose however you need to.
Championship, 15-20 students, but preference is given to those who did not go to Regional 2, or who are critical to the team's operation.

This is assuming, of course, that the school objects to every student going to every event. If they don't have any objection, then take as many as you want to to each event.

If I understand you, this is basically how we do it. Our school doesn't really object to us bringing students, but they would rather have students in school if they can. They have no problem with our home regional, our principal has even come to the Saturday portion the past two years, and they also have no problem with CMP if we make if because its the world championships. However they arent generally that happy about a second (away) regional, so we try to go to one on our spring break (like we did in 2010) or, unfortunately, not go to a second regional (like we did in 2011).