Student Expectations for Travel

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Originally Posted by SarahBeth

How does this go over amongst your kids? As I said, its not that we WANT to take our kids' phones away but I'm not sure how else to motivate them to get out of the stands if they're not scouting and go talk to other teams, check out the pit, etc.

Rereading what I wrote I feel that I made it sound like we were super strict with it. We do allow the kids to have their phones on less "important" days during competition. Generally they have their phones on Thursday but Friday we generally have them and Saturday when they get them back depends on how we did.

The kids grumble because they don't want to be disconnected from "life" but overall it has worked pretty well. Our team inteacts with other teams so much more now and they make friends out of it.

After reading the comment that parents wouldn't want students going on a trip and not having their phone I felt I should add this disclaimer. Since enforcing that rule we have never traveled and only done local events. If we did travel we would have to reconsider that rule and make sure the parents have mentors phone numbers to reach us if their kid does not answer.