Since when I was in highschool about 3 years ago now, I remember it being that we kids had to come up with the bus gas to the nearest community to have a tournement with the other town. The nearest community was 300 kms away and that on our old school buses wasn't an economical trip.

It turned out that the buses charged 600 $ per kid to go on the trip, and the kids would have to come up with that money themselves..me being from a financially challenged family, never got into sports in school to say the least. Not only is gas outrageously sick, but people who try to benefit from it too. 20 x 600 = 12 000 $. A 6 hour there and back bus ride should not cost 12 thousand dollars. I remember hearing that in the UK the government pays for sports trips for the kids to go across europe, or at least to places like the netherlands, germany and france to play other teams. Are we really getting the best economy on our way of life here in the americas?