Kathmandu, Aug. 6 -- No bruises. No police report. No problem.

Abuse within educational institutions in Nepal rarely raises eyebrows or is even recognised as abuse.

But two weeks ago, the Kathmandu Model Secondary School, better known as Kathmandu Model College (KMC +2), a 20-year-old institution in Bagbazar, came under the spotlight after a post titled 'Kathmandu Model College's CI Staff Humiliate and Physically Assault Students' was published on Reddit.

The post described how the college's counselling incharge (CI) routinely harassed students under the pretence of discipline.

Over 200 comments, posts, and confessions on Reddit describe alleged physical punishments such as beatings, verbal abuse, public shaming and humiliation, manha...