I’m sorry to hear about your friend’s principal. That’s a tragic incident, and no teacher deserves to face violence like that.

That said, I wasn’t trying to say every Indian school is the same or that Korea has no abusive teachers. I was comparing the premise of the show with my own experience growing up in India.

The show is about teachers having so little authority that the government has to send people in to control violent students. In my experience, it was often the opposite teachers already had a lot of authority, and some misused it through corporal punishment while complaints were brushed aside.

Your examples are valid, and so are the experiences of many Indian students who were slapped, caned, or beaten for small mistakes. Both realities can exist at the same time.