<p>My issue is not at all with someone who has fallen on hard times and is struggling to pay their tuition bill. </p>
<p>My issue is that it seems they did not seek a solution with the school, talk to the school about it, and are therefore caught off guard when the transcript isn’t released. This would not be you Annasdad- no doubt you’d have approached the school long ago to discuss and work out an arrangement (not just seek an agreement when you are forced to do so when you discover they have some leverage with transcripts). You might be right and they have some kind of security other than transcript (hard to imagine), but my hunch is this school will never be repaid.</p>