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[Matilda - Film] Aside from the fact her punishments are so over-the-top to be believable, how is the Trunchbull able to get away with abusing the kids?

It's explained in the original book that there *is* a board of governors who are technically Miss Trunchbull's employers and are in fact just as terrorized by her as students (and even parents who do show concern are threatened by her to stay away), but aren't there ways for the board of education to check on the students' welfare or notice issues with students that come out of Crunchem Hall?
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In theory, there are people who could roll in and destroy Trunchbull. In practice, those people rely on responsible parties like the teachers and the Board of Governors to alert them that Trunchbull needs destroyed, and so long as she's got them by the short hairs her reign of terror can go on indefinitely. Any student going over their head without hard evidence is probably going to get ignored, and this was a time period where compact user friendly video recording devices weren't commonly available and even still frame cameras could be bulky and require training and practice to use well with no option for rapid upload to cloud storage; the odds of a student getting a clean set of pictures of Trunchbull hammer throwing a kid without getting caught are pretty thin.