Great idea, let's give all flying schools a bad reputation.
look what happened with that Four Corners show a few years back.
There are some of us who make our living out of this industry, are not involved in this particular episode but will be tarred with the same brush.
Follow due process is my advice, I've already posted how. The CFI from your new school has to gain possession of the file. You should be able to rebuild your logbook from that if needs be.
If you go to the media there could be a sh!tstorm for all of us.
The meeja care nothing for the truth, are only interested in ratings and/or selling advertising space, feeding confirmation bias and that means a nice bit of conflict, a weeping mother, an overseas student making thinly veiled racist remarks about greedy capitalist white people yada yada yada