Limiting female drive team members issue

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by CalTran

One of the problems that came up with female travel with our team was that it's hard to justify an entire extra room just for one or two members. To my knowledge we didn't need a female chaperone for "advance" groups.

There's no "hard to justify" for us--if bringing a girl that deserves to be there means we have to have two rooms with one person in each (one girl and one woman chaperoning), that's what we will do because they're just as much a part of the team. We lay out our costs in terms of the total number of people traveling, including mentors, partly to avoid any "oh but she gets the room to herself so..." nonsense. Ain't nobody got time for that.

[dirtbikerxz]

Originally Posted by Billfred

There's no "hard to justify" for us--if bringing a girl that deserves to be there means we have to have two rooms with one person in each (one girl and one woman chaperoning), that's what we will do because they're just as much a part of the team. We lay out our costs in terms of the total number of people traveling, including mentors, partly to avoid any "oh but she gets the room to herself so..." nonsense. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Exactly, there have been a few issues this year, where some parents complained that two girls were getting a whole room to themselves, and that they should pay more than the others, and not have the cost evenly split. The simple answer was "they are part of the team, if the team goes, they go. If you don't agree to those terms, than don't come. Simple"

[FrankJ]

Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz

Exactly, there have been a few issues this year, where some parents complained that two girls were getting a whole room to themselves, and that they should pay more than the others, and not have the cost evenly split. The simple answer was "they are part of the team, if the team goes, they go. If you don't agree to those terms, than don't come. Simple"

You could suggest they recruit more girls.

[dirtbikerxz]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

You could suggest they recruit more girls.

ya, I do that too, but its fairly hard when you go to a school where athletics is a priority over education for most students