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What's more, they'd be well within their rights to sue her straight off the bat for damages/compensation, which would be much more than $36k.

They're not even doing that. They're saying "We gave you money not to talk. You talked, so give the money back". That is an incredibly accommodating position. Overly generous, in my opinion.

If this is all there is to the story, then Lambda School is doing nothing wrong here. Seems like a lot of people (media?) are just looking for the flimsiest excuse to keep piling on.

I'm presumably thinking she thought I'm 5 months pregnant nobody will hire me and my kid needs a home so I'll take their money. I'm presumably she also thought that allowing them to continue tricking people into ISA agreements to learn as much as they can by watching youtube might be wrong.

It is free money until Lambda School actually gets it back. It's up to Lambda School to decide the if money and/or the precedent are worth the public relations cost of fighting about it.