Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 71¶
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Sensitive-content note¶
This chapter includes descriptions of severe domestic and sexual abuse. The narrative facts are preserved without adding graphic detail beyond the source’s meaning.
Reader page 1 — Parents are treated as suspects¶
Parents remain handcuffed or restrained at the youth center.
Na says they are not simply angry guardians.
They are suspected criminals whose conduct caused children to run away.
Police investigation will follow.
The adults protest that the agency has no right to speak to parents this way.
Reader page 2 — One chance¶
Na offers a narrow alternative.
If the parents sign a youth-shelter consent form and promise not to approach or remove the children, the immediate confrontation can end without continued restraint.
He says the children have already testified and do not want to return home.
The parents should be grateful that the children are asking for distance rather than demanding imprisonment.
Reader page 3 — Denial¶
Several adults insist they never abused anyone.
One mother says she did not hit her son. She only responded to useless or disobedient behavior.
Others call the children ungrateful, dishonest, or manipulated by the agency.
Na begins playing recorded testimony.
The children’s own voices answer the denials.
Reader pages 4–5 — Seok-hoon’s mother and the knife¶
A high-achieving student describes constant pressure to rank first at a foreign-language school.
When his grades or motivation disappointed his mother, she entered his room holding a knife to her own neck.
She threatened to die if he did not “come to his senses.”
The boy believed he had only three choices:
- kill himself,
- kill his mother,
- or run away.
He chose to run.
Na and Lim identify the conduct as emotional abuse and gaslighting. The absence of a direct beating does not make the home safe.
Reader pages 6–8 — Other recorded homes¶
More testimonies follow.
One child describes a drunken stepfather who beat them while the mother watched and never intervened.
Another describes a father who struck the child with a bat and withheld food.
Another says the mother simply left.
The recordings create a pattern: the children did not flee because they disliked rules. They fled when remaining home threatened bodily or psychological survival.
Reader pages 9–10 — Oh Yoo-jung’s testimony¶
Yoo-jung’s recorded voice describes remaining at home to protect her younger sister.
Their father beat her until she could barely move.
He then sexually abused her while using violence to prevent resistance.
The chapter does not sensationalize the account. The parents’ room becomes quiet as the scale of the betrayal is made explicit.
Yoo-jung’s later vulnerability to the predatory “helper” is directly connected to the home she escaped.
Reader page 11 — Escape to survive¶
Na says these children did not run away to rebel.
They escaped in order to survive.
He could insist that every abusive parent be arrested immediately.
The children, however, do not universally demand that result.
Some simply want the adults to stay away and allow them to live elsewhere.
The consent form is therefore already a concession.
Reader page 12 — The parents continue blaming the children¶
Several parents still argue that the children are lying because they enjoy freedom outside or do not want to study.
The refusal to hear the recordings demonstrates why ordinary family mediation cannot solve the situation.
The adults treat every statement by the child as another symptom of disobedience.
Reader page 13 — Yoon-jung confronts her father¶
Yoon-jung steps forward.
She asks her father whether he is human.
She says she will tell police everything he did to her and Yoo-jung.
She wants him monitored for the rest of his life, including an electronic tag if the law permits.
Her father responds by raising a hand or moving to strike her.
Even under police observation, his instinct is to restore authority through violence.
Reader page 14 — The helper’s grotesque defense¶
The female helper leader intervenes or shouts from the conflict.
She boasts that she has lived with runaways for approximately eleven years.
She fed them, housed them, and exploited them.
Despite that exploitation, many preferred her residence to their parents’ homes.
She calls herself the future waiting for the children if the adults refuse to change.
The claim is morally repulsive, but it forces the parents to confront the fact that their homes made a trafficker appear preferable.
Reader page 15 — Agreement or notice¶
Na considers the legal form.
The helper argues that the document should not ask parents for “agreement.”
Parents who cannot function as parents should not control whether a child is allowed to leave.
She suggests replacing agreement with notice: the child informs the parent of the separation rather than requesting permission.
Her final challenge is that children should be allowed to abandon parents themselves, instead of waiting for the country to decide whether the adults have failed badly enough.
The chapter ends on the unresolved question of child self-determination.
Chapter-level observations¶
1. Abuse is not limited to physical assault¶
The knife-to-the-neck threat shows how a parent can control a child through self-harm threats while claiming never to have struck them.
2. Failure to protect is also part of the home¶
Several children describe one violent adult and another adult who watched, minimized, or abandoned them.
3. Yoon-jung speaks after seeing institutional backing¶
Her confrontation becomes possible because the father is restrained and the agency has already promised she will not be forced home.
4. The helper’s argument contains a real question inside an immoral life¶
She exploited children, but her challenge—why must a child seek an abuser’s permission to escape?—cannot be dismissed merely because she says it.