i have a question, why does it matter if its a sport or not? how does that change the school board's mind? i guess i'm just curious did they say "you're not a sport, you don't need this money, the sports team does!"? is that what happened?
regardless if you're a sport, club, or not, if you raised money that was YOURS for YOUR club, the school board is in a world of trouble if they took it away from you and used it for an alternative cause.
what you need to do is fine a really pissed off person who donated money to you (via band boosters i'm assuming.) and have THEM go to the school board and tell them that they would like an itemized list of what THEIR money was put towards.
its a big bad bad bad thing when you take charitable donations and don't put them towards what you tell people you are putting them towards. (politicians get in trouble for this all the time)
i mean, the director of the school board may as well went out and bought a fur coat with your money, kwim? it doesn't matter what he/she spent it on, he/she didn't spend it on what they said they would, and thats VERY wrong.
but if this was designated money that the school board allots the band every year, and didn't do that this year, well there's not too much you can do about that.
