It appears as though she DID graduate, and I suppose she is in college, or qualified to apply to colleges. What she doesn’t have is the physical diploma. Does anyone who has been out of high for more than 5 years know where his/her diploma is? I haven’t seen mine for over 35 years, and would not know where to begin to look for it.
My daughter graduated and went off to college. She thought she was all registered with her full scholarship taking care of her tuition and books. But when she looked at her status, she found a HOLD on her account. After many phone calls, she found that her HOLD was due to the university not having her official final transcript. It took several weeks for the HOLD to be lifted. If the registrar at her high school had been a pain, she would not have been able to stay in school. So a high school holding up an official diploma and a transcript can be a problem.
I think this principal made a mountain out of a mole hill, but I would probably advise my daughter to apologize and be done with it. Sand off the feet and all that.
The valedictorian at my daughter’s graduation gave her speech in Spanish while horns were blown in the stands and people talked and yelled the whole time. But if that principal wants to be upset over someone saying ‘hell’ instead of ‘heck,’ I guess there aren’t a lot of real problems in Prague, OK.