Talk:Episode 7 - Sphere Joint/@comment-25874225-20141218064207/@comment-397235-20141219122934

That's true. I mean, Tomohiko is harboring a lot of irrational resentment toward Kouichi, and Takako probably feels guilty for what happened to Junta, so poking at either of those two things is likely to unravel more about the Calamity, but it's not clear how that would change things.

On the one hand, don't they start telling their parents about it in the novel? I mean, it's implied several kids do in the anime (since a lot of students, most notably Takeru, vanish after Kubodera kills himself; the Ayanos were clearly trying the same thing). With the exception of Aya (who I firmly believe the Calamity killed to fuck with Yumi) everyone else made it without adverse consequences, so telling people outside the class about the Calamity might not necessarily be a bad thing.

On the other hand, there's the chance it would work like the Grudge, and simply spread outside the class if they did that.

So there's a 50/50 chance it would've made things better or worse.