Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 82¶
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Opening — Choi Ji-sun wakes in hospital¶
Na and Lim take the unconscious teacher to a nearby hospital rather than waiting for an ambulance.
A doctor says she fainted because of a panic disorder and asks whether she has experienced prolonged stress.
When she wakes, Choi Ji-sun recognizes the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency.
Na says she may rest and lie if she needs time.
Ji-sun answers as though confessing:
“DID I HARASS THE KIDS?”
She tells them to stop investigating and leave.
Her willingness to accept blame without hearing the allegation feels suspicious to Lim.
Park Jin-ju explains the background¶
Another teacher, Park Jin-ju, arrives.
She recognizes Lim immediately from her red hair.
Jin-ju works at the same school and knows about the complaints against Choi Ji-sun.
She asks whether the students’ parents reported the teacher for harassment.
Na asks her to explain what happened.
Jin-ju says the hardest part of elementary teaching is not distracted or disobedient children.
It is parents.
Parents call at all hours¶
Jin-ju describes parents who telephone teachers after work to resolve private arguments, neighborhood grudges, or social conflicts.
One mother demands that her child not sit beside the child of a woman she dislikes.
When Ji-sun says the children have no problem with each other, the mother accuses her of ignoring instructions and threatens consequences unless the seats change immediately.
Teachers go home anxious that their phones may ring at any moment.
Some parents use them as emotional dumping grounds for problems unrelated to education.
Because teachers fear complaints, they feel unable to refuse the calls.
A small fight becomes a formal war¶
The central conflict began when two children argued while playing a mobile game and fought.
Both received minor injuries.
Each mother insisted the other child attacked first.
One demanded an apology and medical payment. The other demanded the same.
Ji-sun tried to have both children apologize and end the dispute.
Neither parent accepted shared responsibility.
They insisted on convening a school-violence committee.
The case was not persistent bullying; it was a brief fight between two children who became emotional.
The committee nevertheless proceeded.
One side received a low-level disposition requiring a written apology.
The losing mother interpreted the result as betrayal by Ji-sun.
“Take responsibility and take off your clothes”¶
The parent says Ji-sun sided with the other family.
She refuses to submit the apology and tells the teacher to take responsibility.
The phrase escalates into a demand that Ji-sun “take off her clothes,” meaning resign or lose her position.
Calls and messages flood in.
Parents visit her house, complain to the principal, and insist the homeroom teacher caused the entire dispute.
The parent community attacks online¶
A mother posts on an online parenting café that her child’s homeroom teacher is insane.
The list of alleged abuses includes ordinary classroom management:
- asking children to clean the classroom,
- requiring a child who played outside to wash before entering,
- and expecting students to finish meals or vegetables.
The post interprets each routine expectation as trauma or cruelty.
Other parents add rumors and congratulate the poster for exposing the “psychopath.”
Ji-sun becomes the most hated teacher in the town.
Ji-sun’s collapse¶
Jin-ju says Choi Ji-sun has fourteen years of experience and is the best teacher she knows.
She has always put genuine effort into helping children.
Under constant calls, online attacks, home visits, and administrative complaints, she begins saying:
“I’M TIRED NOW.”
“I WANT TO QUIT EVERYTHING.”
She becomes willing to be disciplined or fired simply to make the pressure stop.
That explains why she asks the agency to leave and assumes she must be guilty.
The agency recognizes a possible false accusation¶
Lim says the case appears to be a false accusation created by parents.
Na warns her not to decide too quickly. Jin-ju could be protecting a colleague.
Still, he notes that statistical data presented in the source shows parental infringement of teacher rights far exceeding infringement by students or third parties.
The school announces that Ji-sun is taking leave for personal reasons and a new homeroom teacher will replace her.
Online parents celebrate, claiming their complaints saved the children.
Some say Ji-sun should not merely leave teaching but be arrested.
Na reads the messages.
He says that if someone tries to end a teacher’s career merely to feel better:
“I’LL MAKE YOU SHED BLOOD TEARS.”
The chapter closes with the agency preparing to investigate the parent network behind the campaign.
Chapter-level observations¶
1. Ji-sun has internalized the accusations¶
She hears “agency” and immediately asks whether she harassed children, showing how sustained complaints can overwrite professional confidence.
2. A minor child conflict becomes adult identity warfare¶
The children’s fight could have ended through mutual apology. Their parents transform it into a struggle over status and vindication.
3. Ordinary teaching is reframed as abuse¶
Cleaning, hygiene, and meal rules become inflammatory evidence when removed from context and circulated online.
4. Teacher-rights violations operate collectively¶
No single call destroys Ji-sun. The combination of messages, visits, principal complaints, community posts, and rumors produces the collapse.