ROE-378 After graduation… a revenge visit filled with both gratitude and resentment toward the strict female teacher who guided him — group encounter, Yuka Mizuno

Teaching can sometimes mean facing students’ raw anger head-on.

Yuka, who was in charge of the final-year class, had been dealing with a group of troubled students through strict guidance every day, determined to help them avoid failing. Then graduation day arrived. After safely seeing off all of her students once again this year, Yuka was alone in the classroom, looking thoughtfully at the message of thanks written on the blackboard, when the four troublesome students she had been struggling with appeared before her and said, We want to thank you for everything you’ve done for us, Sensei, as they stepped closer…