O.K. Here is my problem, hopefully someone can help.
This is kind of legnthy but please keep reading.
In June, a parents meeting was called to discuss fundraising. The teacher said that she was on "summer break" and she did not want to attend. Some of the parents found out that the teacher was not going to be there and they did not attend. The meeting was still heldand the parents who did attend set up the fundraisersthat we wanted to do for the coming year and how we wanted the money to be spent. Two of the parents took all the info to the school board meeting which is held once a month, presented it to the board, and all but one of the ideas was approved.
One of the fundraisers was held durring the month of July, where as only 7 of the 22 students participated. We wrote checks to the shcool and deposited the money with the "for" line on the check to be used filled in "for uniforms". We also supplied the teacher with a record of who helped and on what days they attended.
Everything was going along fine until school started and the first uniform payment came due. Now we have the parents of the children who did not participate wanting to "share the money" equally between the students of the class and the teacher is wanting to use it to cover the cost of a dance instructor that she hired but could not completely pay for out of the school budget allocated for that.
Since it is common practice at our school for fundraising money to be split only between participating students can the teacher take the money and divide it between all the children of the class? Also, since the money was tagged "for uniforms" can she spend it on something else and make us pay for uniforms out of pocket?
This has become a real nightmare and cause for alot of hard feeling between everybody involved. Can someone give me a little advice on how to handle this situation?
