Get Schooled — Chapter 155¶

Complete Detailed Panel-by-Panel Transcription¶

Scope¶

This transcription follows all 25 ordered reader images in the uploaded Chapter 155 archive. Readable English dialogue, court captions, institutional labels, and online text are preserved where legible. Ambiguous scanlation wording is described rather than silently corrected.

Content note¶

The chapter discusses juvenile detention, rehabilitation, political attacks on the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency, institutional discrimination, and child bullying.

Images 001–004 — Daniel questions the juvenile ruling¶

Outside juvenile court, Daniel and Na Hwa-jin discuss the disposition imposed on Hee-soo and So-rin.

Daniel says he understands that Korea’s juvenile system emphasizes rehabilitation, but the result still feels unusually lenient when the offenders have shown almost no remorse.

Na answers that he also finds the contradiction difficult to accept. The girls planned and filmed an assault, manipulated public opinion, harassed the victim after hospitalization, and repeatedly treated legal protection as proof that consequences did not matter.

A lawyer approaches after the hearing. He argues that the defense succeeded because the court accepted part of So-rin’s account and considered the broader circumstances. The judgment still notes that the students have not properly acknowledged their wrongdoing, yet the defense theory was treated as having merit.

The final order places them in a juvenile protective facility under Disposition No. 6 rather than treating the case like an adult criminal sentence.

Images 005–008 — A politically ambitious lawyer challenges the agency¶

The lawyer introduces himself as Kim Young-sik, a rookie opposition-party politician and attorney connected to Lee Jun-bin through college.

He asks whether Na intends to keep following the girls and interfering after the court’s ruling.

The conversation shifts from the individual case to politics. Kim says the opposition can use the controversy to attack the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency. The agency was created through unusual agreement between the president, ruling party, and opposition, so abolishing it through ordinary politics would be difficult—especially while Minister Choi Gang-seok remains in office.

Kim therefore proposes a different strategy:

TURN PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST IT.

He characterizes the agency as unconstitutional and argues that its primitive “eye for an eye” methods can produce public outrage greater than the students’ original wrongdoing.

Images of media headlines and online debate show how every intervention can be reframed as adults humiliating or assaulting minors.

Images 009–011 — Na accepts that the institution has begun to crack¶

Na listens without flinching.

He says that after roughly a year and a half of activity, cracks are naturally appearing around the agency. His role is not to pretend those weaknesses do not exist, but to drive a wedge into the problems that the ordinary education system refuses to address.

Kim argues that this case was not merely guidance. The agency staged a public demonstration and placed overwhelming pressure on the accused students before a national audience.

Na replies that the lenient response has taken away one of the girls’ final opportunities to recognize what they did and reflect sincerely.

Kim declares that the agency will disappear from Korea within a year.

Na does not retreat, and the two men separate with the conflict now framed as both educational and political.

Images 012–015 — Hee-soo and So-rin enter Eve Youth Home¶

A secure women’s juvenile facility appears beneath the sign:

EVE YOUTH HOME

Hee-soo and So-rin arrive carrying their belongings. They complain about the isolated location, the rules, and the loss of their phones.

Even inside the institution, they try to take selfies and preserve their online personas.

A senior resident catches them. She is introduced as Min Yu-jung, an inmate representative who received a sixth-level disposition after her case was transferred from criminal court to the juvenile division.

Yu-jung tells them that phones are forbidden and makes clear that celebrity from a viral controversy has no authority inside the facility.

For the first time, the two girls enter a social environment they cannot control through followers, livestreams, selective editing, or juvenile bravado.

Images 016–018 — Na and Daniel visit the facility¶

Na and Daniel arrive at Eve Youth Home as part of the follow-up.

A youth-rights attorney or counselor, Lee Jun-bin, is introduced in connection with the institution and the girls’ continuing legal supervision.

The conversation briefly turns domestic. Daniel now lives in a rental apartment approximately twenty minutes away by bus. The Minister’s secretary arranged it, and Daniel comments that it is cleaner and more comfortable than his former home in the United States.

The apparently light transition moves Daniel directly into the next case.

Images 019–022 — Daniel witnesses apartment-based bullying¶

Near his new apartment complex, Daniel sees several children surrounding a dark-haired girl.

They call her:

FILTHY BUM

RENTAL BEGGAR

STINKY BUM

The girl is Kim Woo-chan.

The children tell her that only residents from the approved buildings are allowed to use the playground. A posted notice lists eligible apartment buildings and excludes the rental block.

The children treat the rule as proof that Woo-chan is naturally inferior. They do not speak about lease contracts or housing policy; they reduce her entire family to the word “beggar.”

Daniel intervenes and listens as the insults echo between the newer owner-occupied towers and the differently colored rental building.

Images 023–025 — A new form of discrimination¶

Daniel looks from Woo-chan to the apartment complex.

The setting is materially comfortable and far removed from the American slum violence he described earlier, yet the children’s expressions are painfully familiar: contempt directed at someone for a condition she did not choose.

The chapter closes by visually dividing the complex into purchased units and public-rental units.

The conflict is not simply rich children teasing a poor classmate. The residential structure, adults’ language, playground regulations, and property anxieties have already taught the children that address and ownership determine human worth.

Chapter-level continuity notes¶

The juvenile-law arc ends without simple satisfaction¶

The girls receive custody in a juvenile institution, but Daniel and Na remain troubled by how little genuine reflection occurred. The legal system’s rehabilitative intent is not mocked; the chapter asks what rehabilitation means when offenders use leniency as proof that harm is inconsequential.

Kim Young-sik opens a political front¶

The lawyer does not need to prove that every agency intervention is wrong. He only needs enough troubling images and public unease to make the institution politically toxic.

Hee-soo and So-rin’s online fame has no protective value. Min Yu-jung’s authority comes from the facility’s hierarchy and rules, not views.

Daniel’s next case mirrors his own history¶

The vocabulary is different from American racial abuse, but the emotional mechanism is recognizable: children define another child as contaminated and excluded because of an inherited social category.