Does she play sport or have an outside school activity - it may help move her focus to something more productive.
I sometimes feel for the kids in the 'popular' groups, they tend to have a lot of followers and/or biatches around them and they have more of a profile to maintain iykwim?

Sorry about the money thing - it's a bit eeek. What did you do about that, did you post somewhere and I missed it? XOXOXOXOXO great, big, fat hugs. Beer/wine can be helpful sometimes.......