School 2013 Episode 2

Four Stars

General Thoughts/Feelings
Feel like there's quite a high level of realism with the complicated problem of leaving the bullying etc alone vs butting in. I can really understand the characters, especially the students.
It really shows the real life problems in school with all the issues of telling on other students. I hate how easy the teachers made it seem like 'You just have to tell me and everything will be OK' or trying to understand the student, 'Is it hard? Are you getting bullied?' because no it's not as easy as they make it sound. Though I may not have experienced what the characters are going through, even I know that there's even more problems involved if they tattled on their fellow classmates. I hate how the school system here is run with the whole late fee since common sense would tell you that's a terrible idea. Also, how the headteacher thought it's so EASY to control a group of students like 'Oh, you're not doing a good job with class 2' urrrrrrm I'd like you to get the first-hand experience with them.
You can argue that In Jae's determination to 'understand' the bully and probably try to change him like some cliche bad boy good girl storyline and her consistent butting of her nose into other people's businesses just creates more harm. It's so excessive and she gets hurt too. This leads to questions like how does do they stop bullying and bad attitudes if teachers don't interfere and the answers are hard to find. Though she may have gained some respect from the students at the end, any other outcomes could've been possible in this scenario but she just got lucky.
As a student, I'd prefer Se Chan as a teacher WAY more with his unique teaching and good humour etc. In Jae is a bit too uptight and tbh, she REALLY has no power to do anything so I feel like she should stop because she's the one about to get laid off now.
Really just want to get to the bromance that I've been hearing a lot about

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