Governmentally Un-Authorized Private School: No Infirmary
I think therefore I am — posted in the school bathrooms
If you search the name of a certain school into Google Maps, you’ll see reviews like: “It’s hard to be happy here,” as well as “If you dream of a good future, don’t come.” Of course, these comments are probably made by rebellious teenagers, but when the school’s total review is 3.5, it really comes into question. The school in mention is where we — the members of Code Blue Club — attend. Due to obvious reasons, we won’t be calling the school by its name. Let’s call it XXX School.
Unauthorized by the South Korean government, XXX School runs as an international school accredited internationally by Accreditation International(AI), National Council for Private School Accreditation(NCPSA), and a few more. However, there is no doubt that being unnoticed nationally causes many limitations.
One of the biggest problems is that there is no clear infrastructure : a building labelled as a church, no library, just shelves, and most importantly, no infirmary. There is not even an in-school nurse: a record of one staff having filled the position exists, but now students are required to ask the infamously inefficient administration office for medical help.
So, picture this: a student bruises their knee. There is no infirmary to go to, no nurse to ask to help from, and no bare minimum ice pack given to them. As a private school, XXX School seems to be offering just that.
In middle school, I had suddenly felt sick and had to run out of class to throw up in the toilet. After explaining everything that happened, the administration office made me run around campus fetching the signatures of my homeroom teacher and the vice-principal. After that, they finally took my slip and said, simply: You’re free to go now.
After I had just vomited and was clutching my stomach in pain. Not even offering medicine nor calling my parents to come pick me up. You’re free to go.
So who can fix this major campus problem? No progress or attempts seem to be made by the school.
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Code Blue Club, a medical-focus club founded at the beginning of the 2026 spring semester, has taken the case. We have brought it upon ourselves to do something about this issue: revive the infirmary.
Within the crowded corridors of our tiny campus, there is a small room with enough space for one person to lie down. It’s not much, but it’s a relief that this space isn’t used for anything else, or else our whole plan wouldn’t even be possible. There is currently a dusty mattress and some shelves backed to the walls: a prior infirmary, as well as the workings of a new one.
Everything seems to be in place, the only thing left to do is write out a plan to submit to the administration office.
We’ve finished that.
We’ve submitted the plan.
We’ve received the promise that we would receive an update in a week.
Let’s see how long it takes.
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