Wow, what a mess. But if everything was preapproved by the board, then the teacher and non-participating parents don't have a right to the money, do they? They'll have to be told "no". Where is the Principal in all of this?
hi,
There are 22 students in the show choir class. We have a seperate booster club set up to use for funding our special needs because we travel and compete against schools. (uniforms, chorography, music, equipment, travel, etc.)
The school board said that even though Show Choir is a seperate entity (like band and football) but we are still part of the school and that all fundraisers have to be school board approved. Durring this process we present ideas to the board, outlining who what and where and how the money will be used and for what purpose. We (the parents who attended the parents meeting) did this and then we went about holding the fundraisers.
In the past years when our group held a fundraiser there was a log of the ones who participated. The money was divided equally among those students and a tally sheet was created for the amount that child earned. Since only 7 of the 22 students helped there were only 7 children who recieved money in their account.
That is where the problem is coming from. The other parents want their share of the money and the teacher wants to spend it for totally different things.
I am caught in the middle of it all because it was my idea, equipment and supplies donated for use in the fundraiser. I will only hold private ones from now own, but right now I have to smooth this one over before world war three is started.
The whole school is 22 students? What kind of school?
The kids fundraise and then get credit for the $$ they raised (to use for themselves? ie. for uniforms?)
It's hard to say what is standard, becuase those are all fairly unusual circumstances.
It's quite typical for only a % of all students/families to participate in a fundraiser, and typically the whole school still benefits (even though all families didn't participate). But again, would need more details to know exactly what's happening at your school.
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 purpose :eek:.
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? :confused:
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?
