Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 88¶
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Opening — One week to apologize¶
Woo-jin’s mother demands proof that Mrs. Choi is innocent and says the agency never asked for her side.
Lim identifies herself as the inspector who conducted the investigation and says the children are watching.
She moves the confrontation away from the classroom.
The mother says the investigation and the undercover operation must be illegal. She also argues that hearing a child cry proves something happened.
The agency says further discussion can occur at the police station.
Her confidence disappears.
She admits that she exaggerated complaints and begs for forgiveness.
Lim tells her that the apology belongs first to the people she harmed.
Mrs. Choi is not the only victim. The entire fifth-grade class and its parents were affected by the campaign.
A parent meeting is scheduled in one week.
If Woo-jin’s mother publicly apologizes there, the agency will end the matter. If she refuses, the criminal process will continue.
Lim says she does not expect genuine reflection and believes the mother is planning another maneuver.
The edited recording campaign¶
Woo-jin’s mother prepares a new online post.
She attaches an audio graph and claims the reinstated teacher yelled at and struck her son.
She says the Teachers’ Rights Protection Agency protects violent teachers while neglecting children.
She announces a one-person protest at the Ministry and asks mothers and civic groups to spread the post.
She converts the message into an easily shared image file and posts it across multiple communities.
Her strategy is to make the accusation too large to investigate carefully.
A student answers publicly¶
A fifth-grade student, Kim Hye-yeon, borrows her mother’s parent-café account.
She writes a detailed rebuttal.
Hye-yeon says Woo-jin’s mother repeatedly harassed their homeroom teacher, threatened her by phone and text, and finally used Woo-jin to provoke a confrontation.
She tells readers that the public claims are lies and asks them not to look down on their teacher.
Other parents begin responding.
They call the manipulation of Woo-jin cruel and question everything the mother previously posted.
The counter-narrative spreads beyond the original café.
The neighborhood turns on Woo-jin’s mother¶
Flyers and posts titled “Revealing the true nature of Woo-jin’s mom” circulate through apartment mailboxes and elevators.
Neighbors demand that she come outside and explain.
They accuse her of using her son and making the entire school unsafe.
Her husband confronts her.
He says she did something similar in their previous neighborhood and once created a scandal at a store.
He had already warned that he would divorce her if it happened again.
The family has a thirty-year apartment loan and cannot easily move after their reputation collapses.
She responds by insulting his career, failed promotion, and inability to provide a better neighborhood.
The argument shows that humiliation—not concern for Woo-jin—remains her central fear.
Woo-jin bears the consequences¶
Woo-jin appears injured and emotionally exhausted after classmates and neighbors recognize the scandal.
He tells his mother that her actions ruined his life.
He says he will live with his father and orders her to get lost.
The child whom she repeatedly used as the justification for complaints now openly rejects the claim that she acted for him.
The chapter closes on Na’s earlier promise:
Those who try to ruin another person’s life merely to make themselves feel better will eventually “cry blood.”
Chapter-level observations¶
1. The mother treats public attention as protection¶
She believes an accusation spread widely enough becomes immune to correction.
2. The children create the decisive rebuttal¶
The most damaging response comes not from the agency but from a classmate who witnessed the manipulation.
3. Community shaming reproduces the same cruelty¶
The neighborhood’s reaction exposes the mother, but it also harms Woo-jin, who did not create the campaign.
4. Her deepest fear is loss of status¶
Criminal punishment matters, but the apartment, marriage, and neighborhood reputation dominate her private thoughts.