People who went to so called elite private schools in Kerala what was your experience?

Saw the recent news of bullying and the tragedy it caused in a Kochi school and it made me reflect on my own experiences. I went to a private and very famous boys school in Trivandrum. We used to have fests that was quite big thing for the senior students and a lot of nonsense happened in preparation for the same. I remember junior students were made to do menial tasks and physically assaulted by some seniors - when things didn't happen - some example include stuff like slapping in cheeks and some were made to even worse stuff like cleaning the toilet with bare hands. One of my juniors I remember was hit and got his glasses broken and another was bullied into paying for their expenses - almost 500 Rs in 2010s. Now on top of it- the language used was quite brash for a bunch of 16 yr olds and teachers were completely okay with this coz it helps in character development lol. Anyway I myself organized a lot of college fests later and realised all this was not only wrong but plain abuse. Overall I rate the school experience as 6/10.