What changes have occurred at school since the Students’ Rights Charter enated in Gyeonggi Province in 2010? A New School examines the divers discourses and current issues surrounding the Students’ Rights Charter through the dialogue and conflicts between teachers and students at a high school.

School is where people develop their talents. But the landscape of school in Korea these days looks like a long tunnel which students should go through for better universities instead of developing talents. In the society for good educational background, school also needs ‘capable men’ for the society. While students walk through this long tunnel, they should go ahead for the fixed curriculum, and teachers cannot teach dignity of humans and happiness to their students because they suffer from scholastic achievement tests and official documents. Parents watch the door of our lips, and are nervous to get entrance exam information. This documentary would like to focus on how to make a school based on human rights and how a school accepts the stream of times, which tries to realize a new school. Broadly, it tries to deal with the stance of those who realize educational policy, the situation of human rights for the students, the endeavors of teachers, and how this new experiment is possible. This film will show the appropriateness that school should be changed to a living space for education for the whole, and become an action to make a new school.

2011 The 3th DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival