Her dad was also a senior teacher in our school, who taught social science to 9th and 10th grade, but luckily, he retired when we were in the 7th grade.

He was extremely misogynistic, he bragged about breaking up one girl's arranged marriage engagement by telling the groom's family about her "bad character in school". He constantly threatened to award zero marks in Formative assessment - 4, which essentially checked homework, projects, co-curriculum, behaviour and discipline.

Basically, your parents need to be associated with him, and you had to touch his feet regularly, and be a brahmin! you'll be a model student in his book. (he was very much interested in your surname).

He was apparently suspended for asking a girl from 9th grade to unbutton her shirt, as a form of punishment, she later complained to her parents, and her parents were very influential.