SAN JOSE, Calif. – A former San Jose High School principal faces allegations she spend thousands of dollars in Parent Teacher Student Association money on meals, clothes and massages for herself.

Parents, teachers and faculty at the school accuse former principal Cary Catching of opening an unauthorized PTSA account in September 2010, then using her sole discretion over the account to spend $7,300 “without receipts or explanations” over a three year period, NBC reports.

That money included numerous checks Catching wrote to herself for hundreds of dollars, and another made out to cash for $1,765.48, according to a district audit of the account. Other purchases included high-dollar restaurants, such as $518 spent at Original Joe’s in downtown San Jose, $135 at the steakhouse McCormick and Schmick’s, and hundreds on clothing, massages for staff, and lotto tickets, according to the news site.

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“You cannot be in education, work for children and be taking away money which other people have donated to programs and kids,” said Anjali Mehta, a parent who runs the snack bar during sports games and organizes student fundraisers, told NBC.

“We fight for every single dollar that we need to put back into programs for the kids,” she said.

School records show Catching opened a bank account for the PTSA on Sept. 30, 2010 against district policy that prohibits administrators from managing such funds.

“Parents are supposed to run the PTSA and decide how and where to spend the money,” according to NBC.

But PTSA funds were not the only ones to go missing.

District officials called police in December 2013 when $1,600 in cash disappeared from a safe at the school. Police questioned Catching, but did not file charges or make an arrest. An unidentified source told investigators Catching likely also took money from cashboxes at school football games and dances.

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“She would take it and count it; some was taken out and some was left in,” the source told NBC. “There is such a shortage of school money right now and to have money disappear that could be helping our community, our students and or staff – that is appalling to me.”

Clinton Loo, a former San Jose High School math teacher also believes Catching stole from a fundraiser for Project Horizon, a student travel study program. He told NBC he gave Catching the cash to put in the bank, but not all of it was deposited.

“It was exactly $500 short,” he said. “We were both incredulous. We didn’t know what happened. We had double counted the money ourselves and we’d never made a mistake like that before.

“Five hundred dollars is not a small amount,” Loo added. “If it was $20 or $40 you can understand how a bill gets stuck together. But $500 is a stack of twenties. Somewhere something went missing.”

Public records obtained by NBC also showed the school district never received rental fees when a men’s basketball camp rented the school’s gym for tournaments in 2011 and 2012. The rental fees – $40 per hour plus other costs – would have amounted to $10,808 for 2012 alone, NBC reports.

“Whoever rented the facility paid someone and it didn’t go to the district or to the school,” the insider told the television station.

Blunt insisted he paid the school district, but couldn’t provide NBC with invoices and referred further comment to his attorney.

District superintendent Vincent Matthews refused repeated requests by NBC to discuss the issue, and referred comments to district spokesman Jorge Quintana.

Quintana said the district discovered some of the problems in December 2013, and “did what we were supposed to do” by questioning Catching, but ended its investigation a month later when the principal resigned to take another job with the San Mateo County Office of Education as the Director of Safe and Supportive Schools, NBC reports.

Quintana said SJUSD did not attempt to recover the missing money because the district doesn’t have authority over PTSA accounts. The California Six District PTA was “not available to discuss specifics concerning San Jose High School” when contacted by NBC.

When investigators went to Catching’s new job to question her, she refused to discuss details about the missing PTSA funds or facility rental fees.

Parent volunteer Mehta said the high school’s parents cut ties with the PTSA in 2014 and started a new Parent Teacher Organization.