First off, I live in Asia. I refuse to tell which country, though.
This have been bugging me recently. I go to this private high school whose tuition fee is one of the highest in the country. I've got this friend who's not financially well off. But his parents worked really hard to send him to the school. He is one of my few best friends, someone I actually trust (not to the fullest, btw). We are senior highschool students, btw.
So yeah, the school started this month and strangely, he did not show up. Well my class weren't really worried at first, because not many students show up on the first day. But then we realized his name was not on the classlist. That could mean only one thing; he did not enroll. We started contacting him, asking him why he did not enroll and stuff. And as expected, he didn't have the money to pay the tuition.
We also learned that he had a debt of about 4000 US Dollars to the school. It was actually accumulated through out his school life, and the school finally got irritated and they refused to admit him to the senior year. Pretty understandable, actually, but the dude's got dreams too.
Our class is trying to pay the debt for him, which I doubt will work out. I'm actually on the side of "Don't help the helpless poor", but hell, when it comes to friendship, the situation's entirely different. Hope he can graduate with us.