Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 61¶
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Strips 001–006 — Arrival at the Office of Education¶
The chapter opens at the Gyeonggi-do Office of Education.
Lim Han-rim sits beside Lee Sang-wook before the administrative hearing.
She tells him that he will need to make a statement and speak again about the abuse.
“ARE YOU OKAY?”
Sang-wook is visibly nervous but answers:
“YES I’M OKAY. I’LL DO WHAT I HAVE TO.”
He admits that being alone in the official building still feels frightening.
Committee members arrive.
One man identifies himself as Kim Sang-heon, a member of the disciplinary mediation committee. Another is introduced as a youth human-rights attorney. The scanlation’s introductory phrasing is fragmented, but the roles are clear.
The sharply dressed lawyer recognizes Lim from the previous hearing and displays immediate hostility toward the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency.
Lim says she does not particularly enjoy long introductions and does not like his attitude either.
The series logo separates the arrival from the formal hearing.
Strips 007–10 — Sang-wook’s claim¶
The hearing begins between the claimant and respondent.
The chair asks Sang-wook to explain why he requested an administrative trial and says he may remain seated.
Sang-wook chooses to stand.
He explains that Hong Song-hak sent messages implying retaliation after the school-violence committee’s decision and later came directly to his home.
If the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency had not arrived, Sang-wook believes the abuse would still be continuing.
“I CANNOT GO TO THE SAME SCHOOL AS HONG SONG-HAK.”
That is why he requested the administrative trial.
The chair thanks him and permits him to sit.
Strips 011–13 — The committee defends five days of suspension¶
A man introduces himself as Lee Jun-bin, a member of the committee that decided Song-hak’s original sanction.
He argues that the decision was appropriate.
The purpose of school-violence committees and other juvenile systems, he says, is correction rather than punishment.
Even in a serious case, evidence of reflection may justify consideration.
Most accused students deny wrongdoing. Song-hak admitted everything.
A flashback shows Song-hak saying:
“YES, YOU’RE RIGHT. I DID IT ALL.”
He also promised:
“I WON’T DO IT AGAIN~”
The committee interpreted these words as remorse.
Lee Jun-bin says a reflective student could not reasonably receive more than suspension. Keeping the students in the same class was intended to promote reconciliation rather than permanent separation.
He even suggests the five-day suspension may have been too severe.
Strips 013–15 — Lim says Song-hak never reflected¶
Lim interrupts.
“HONG SONG-HAK DIDN’T REFLECT ON HIMSELF!”
She identifies herself as the agency supervisor who personally handled his special education.
Although told not to speak out of turn, she insists that she observed Song-hak’s conduct throughout the period and never saw genuine reflection.
He mocked the lightness of the punishment and retaliated immediately.
Lim argues that the committee bears responsibility because it treated the performance of remorse as proof of remorse.
Strips 015–18 — The youth lawyer attacks the agency¶
The youth human-rights attorney asks whether the committee’s weak decision is really responsible for Lim’s excessive special education.
He says he speaks with many children and knows the agency’s reputation among them:
“THE GRIM REAPER.”
He accuses the agency of destroying young lives with criminal consequences extending beyond school discipline.
He watched the training video posted online and saw Lim use violence from the beginning.
The lawyer asks how Song-hak would feel when an authority with such overwhelming power appeared before him.
Would he not conclude that his life was over?
The attorney argues that minors are called juveniles because they are mentally immature. They make mistakes and require opportunities to return.
Not giving them that opportunity, he says, may cause more crimes later.
Strips 019–21 — Sang-wook’s fear is reframed as revenge¶
Sang-wook says:
“I ONCE TRIED TO TAKE MY LIFE BECAUSE OF FEAR…”
“AFTER BEING THREATENED BY HIM.”
He asks whether punishing the perpetrator automatically ends the danger.
The lawyer says Sang-wook’s instability itself proves adolescent immaturity.
He claims to understand the boy’s feelings, then asks why Sang-wook concluded that Song-hak would retaliate.
Did he never expect the school to protect him?
Did he imagine the worst future while psychologically unstable?
The lawyer suggests that the administrative trial may be personal revenge:
“IF YOU SUFFERED, HE SHOULD SUFFER…”
The questioning places the victim’s fear on trial rather than the repeated retaliation.
Strips 022–24 — Sang-wook describes adult indifference¶
Lim erupts at the lawyer for speaking this way to the victim.
The lawyer calls her justice one-dimensional and asks whether she encouraged Sang-wook to seek revenge.
Sang-wook begins breathing painfully and clutches his chest or stomach.
He says that it has always been this way.
Whether adults look at the victim or the perpetrator, both are described as “children to protect.”
“THEY ONLY SAY THEY UNDERSTAND…”
“BUT THEY’RE NOT INTERESTED IN OUR PAIN!”
The stress produces a coughing or panic episode, and he leaves the room.
Strips 025–27 — The eye-for-an-eye challenge¶
In the corridor, a black-clad figure points Sang-wook toward the bathroom.
Sang-wook recognizes the person with surprise. The face is initially concealed, but the intervention anticipates Na Hwa-jin’s appearance in the next chapter.
Inside the hearing room, the youth lawyer turns back to Lim.
He invokes the principle of “an eye for an eye,” associated with the ancient Code of Hammurabi.
“DO YOU REALLY THINK VIOLENCE SHOULD BE SOLVED WITH VIOLENCE?”
He asks whether public applause for the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency has become Lim’s standard of justice.
Lim’s face tightens.
Her answer begins:
“OF COURSE…”
The chapter ends before the sentence is completed.
Chapter-level observations¶
1. The hearing treats spoken remorse as measurable evidence¶
Song-hak learned which phrases reduce punishment. The committee never tested whether his conduct changed afterward.
2. Correction and victim safety are framed as opposing goals¶
The lawyer protects the idea of another chance but repeatedly asks the victim to carry the risk of that chance.
3. Sang-wook is forced to justify fear after retaliation already occurred¶
The question “why did you expect retaliation?” ignores that Song-hak sent threats and came to his home.
4. Lim’s methods create a legitimate legal and ethical dispute¶
The chapter does not make the lawyer’s broader concern meaningless. It shows how that concern can become cruel when it erases the actual victim standing in the room.