<p>^Pulling him out and moving him to public school at the last minute doesn’t resolve the issue of being in arrears on the tuition bill and thus not being able to have the transcript released. Even if they did pull him out to go to public school, his new HS would need his transcript, which would require payment of the bill. So you’ve just messed up the kid’s senior year and gotten no gain out of it. </p>
<p>People on here seem incredibly judgemental on this family. I’m not a parent, but if I was and I had my kid in private school (which is a choice for families to make and none of anyone’s business) and I hit hard times financially, I would do everything possible to keep my kids in the school I had selected for them, where they would be receiving the education I wanted for them. The family, as the OP has stated, has been working with the school to figure out a way to deal with this problem and it seems they’ve settled it with integrity and decency. No school wants to punish a family that hits financial difficulty, indeed many private schools, especially parochial schools, bend over backwards to help support families that fall into distress. Still, the school needs the tuition money to pay its bills. So settling it with a payment plan or some other agreement seems fair. At any rate, it’s not anyone’s place here to judge another family’s financial decisions. You can’t know from an internet posting what their real situation is. And even if you did, a little compassion never hurt anyone.</p>