New York Districts?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by mistersands

NYC is very hard to travel out of. Virtually none of my students have parents who have cars.

My experience is that it's hard to travel into NYC. Once you're there, it's easy enough to get around, but unless you're taking the train you've got some serious logistical issues trying to find a place to put a team bus, and it'll be expensive no matter how you do it.

Staying overnight in NYC is a heck of a lot more expensive than any of the other suggested locations. That puts it on the harder end of the scale when you consider fundraising.

I don't see why the number of parents with cars is relevant. They're not going to be the ones asked to provide transportation, are they?

Most of the parents don't speak English. In fact, on my team of 20+ students, I've only met the parents of 2.

Again, I don't understand the relevance. Unless you're trying to imply that the parents do not comprehend what the team does, in which case it shouldn't be hard to tell them. One would expect that the students can talk to their parents.

Many would not LET their child travel outside of NYC even on a school trip. A trip to Long Island would be fine, but upstate I might lose a third of my team to parents not wanting their children to travel.

Can this be true? I have a hard time imagining that high school students would not be permitted to go on the equivalent of a school field trip. It's not like the world outside NYC is some crowded, dirty, crime-ridden environment. (Okay, that's not fair of me to obliquely accuse NYC of being such an environment itself. I'm just trying to understand the reasoning.)

If it was overnight, I would lose over half. And NYC teachers are forbidden from transporting students in their own vehicles.

I'm getting the impression that you're focusing on trying to travel using privately-formed carpools. What's wrong with a school bus? And I thought the reason Albany was suggested was because there's rail transportation available from NYC.

Long Islanders are used to traveling. Almost all parents have cars, and in fact many students have cars.

Whether or not someone is accustomed to traveling shouldn't have any bearing on someone else's planning a trip for them.