High School Transportation To Away Games

[TitanCoach]

It's a teacher who is the cheer advisor. she doesn't do any coaching, per se. The girls coach themselves, which is a whole other matter. She allows the JV captains to just berate and yell at the other girls and supports the captains. I'm thinking if things keep going this way, my daughter will just quite - with my approval. Things are just seeming more ridiculous with each passing day.

There is just so much wrong with this :( There is no way any team should be happening without a coach....imagine the captains running the football team and no coaches. Captains certainly have an important role imo but yelling at fellow teammates is not part of any role.
My suggestion, as a teacher coach, is to meet with the teacher (perhaps the ad as well) and bring forward all of the concerns. Then go to the principal if your concerns are not addressed. If that fails...the next in line is the superintendent here (not sure if it is the same chain of command where you are) and I wouldn't have any qualms about going there when the issues are safety and fair treatment! I think fighting is absolutely the right decision from what you have said.

 

[Official OWECheer]

The two private schools by me use our local college's field as their home field. They somehow make it work between the three teams, with one occasionally using another field when conflict can't be avoided. The two teams have a huge rivalry so using the college stadium for their rivalry game known as "The Holy War" works really well because fans fill up the D1 college stands.

Those must be so much fun to cheer at!

 

[TheVipersMom]

I don't remember anything about cheerleaders but I was on color guard so we rode with the band. We paid nothing for this.

The football players got a charter bus if it was an hour away or more (or if a playoff or state championship game they got one) if not they just rode regular buses. However I vaguely remember one the charter buses breaking down (the football had charter we had a regular bus) and we were a good 2 hours from home we set 3 to a seat with some football players on the band bus just so we could get them home that was so much fun!

I think it's crazy they can't get you a bus. Now that I think about it our cheerleaders rode a short bus. It was a bus owned by the school like it was painted and said the schools name, I think they gave parents the option of taking kids to and from or riding the bus for cheerleaders.

Football and band members had to ride it to and from. I loved it and getting to go out to eat with my team before games was the best!


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[TealShades]

That's crazy that students have to pay for a bus... And even crazier that they don't offer a bus to cheerleaders! My high school has sports busses, uniforms, comp fees all tired into the budget. The football team took two busses, one for the players and the other for the cheerleaders and equipment. That was fun. But better than nothing.. that really stinks you have to drive to every single game. If that were the case I'd never be able to cheer at all

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lol I love that fact that the cheerleaders are in bus with the football equipment but at least they get a bus.

 

[TealShades]

are these fees for like charter buses or just regular school buses with schools name on it? I think it's crazy schools pay for charter buses or fancy buses lol when they could us the regular ol' school buses.

 

[Hscoach10]

Our school pays for transportation to all away games. They also pay for transportation to all competitions with the exception of our flights for nationals(they do provide a bus to and from the airport). They also pay all fees for competitions except for nationals. I can't believe other schools don't provide busses for games! Maybe this is why our taxes are so high in my town...lol.

 

[Mo' Bettah]

At our HIgh School Cheerleading is not a sport, therefore not entitled to any sports booster money. So unfair, but the cheerleaders have to pay for everything themselves.

 

[ErinS]

How did that work? Did people play on different nights? A private school about an hour away doesn't have a stadium and uses the public school's for home games, so if we play there we play on Saturdays. Which is doable since there are only 2 teams using it. Do your schedules just work out so that there aren't like 4 games there in one weekend?

We had (have) 2 district stadiums shared by 6 schools. 1 high school has their own stadium. Each school kind of has their own assigned stadium so it averaged out to 3 schools per stadium.


I think schedules worked out to where you have 5 home game each. Occasionally you'd have a Thursday night game. So if say my high school ACF was home Friday, Dreher may have been home Thursday night while Columbia high plays away Friday

Occasionally we'd have to have a home game at the other district stadium which felt weird


Honestly I never really considered that our stadium was shared (it just felt like home) until we'd have to play another district school and be the "away" team

 

[cheerKT]

We had (have) 2 district stadiums shared by 6 schools. 1 high school has their own stadium. Each school kind of has their own assigned stadium so it averaged out to 3 schools per stadium.


I think schedules worked out to where you have 5 home game each. Occasionally you'd have a Thursday night game. So if say my high school ACF was home Friday, Dreher may have been home Thursday night while Columbia high plays away Friday

Occasionally we'd have to have a home game at the other district stadium which felt weird


Honestly I never really considered that our stadium was shared (it just felt like home) until we'd have to play another district school and be the "away" team

Yep it always worked out. Now the teams that share it average one Thursday night home game a year. There's also a bye week factored in I believe. Other than that they just scheduled you to play away while another team was home. If we needed to we played as the home team at another stadium in our district, which wasn't bad because none of them were that far. Our rival school had the same home stadium, so it was always played there and we just rotated home and away sides.

 

[Twinklestars]

At our HIgh School Cheerleading is not a sport, therefore not entitled to any sports booster money. So unfair, but the cheerleaders have to pay for everything themselves.

This is our school. It doesn't help that there is a separate booster club for each sport rather that one big booster club. And, they won't let cheer have a booster club.

 

[Cheermom1969]

are these fees for like charter buses or just regular school buses with schools name on it? I think it's crazy schools pay for charter buses or fancy buses lol when they could us the regular ol' school buses.

Ours are definitely a school bus. But we will get a charter for playoffs because usually they boys have to travel further for those.

 

[Cheermom1969]

Our school pays for transportation to all away games. They also pay for transportation to all competitions with the exception of our flights for nationals(they do provide a bus to and from the airport). They also pay all fees for competitions except for nationals. I can't believe other schools don't provide busses for games! Maybe this is why our taxes are so high in my town...lol.

Wow! You really are very fortunate they pay for all those things. Yes, probably why your taxes are so high. lol

 

[pvcheerclauds5]

In my school, everything (transportation, comp fees, choreo, etc.) gets paid for either by the school or the athletic booster club for football and cheerleading (none of the cheerleaders really know who pays for what). This is of course with the exception of tumbling, some additional clothing items and our shoes. It baffles me to see that people have to provide their own transportation to and from games. We also do fundraising where the individual gets their own money kicked back to them for the amount they sell. Needless to say I don't think I have paid a dime to the team this season (started in May) and I still have money left over from last season!

 

[FamousxMindset]

Have any of your scool districts imposed a limit on how much parents can pay out of pocket? Ours just passed one and we max out a 300, everything else has to be fundraised or "donated." I understand that the sport needs to be affordable but 300 is just not reasonable for this sport.

 

[Cheermom1969]

I'm taking it none of y'all who get everything paid for live in California. #imjealous