With his new series, “Mr. Iglesias,” arriving three months after the contentious cancellation of “One Day at a Time,” the comedian Gabriel Iglesias will inevitably be seen as picking up the cause of Latino representation on Netflix. That’s a lot of pressure for someone who’s really just trying to remake “Welcome Back, Kotter.”

Like Gabriel Kaplan’s Gabe Kotter, Iglesias’s Gabe Iglesias is a dedicated public-school teacher assigned to a class of comic underachievers. The Brooklyn high school in “Kotter” was based on Kaplan’s alma mater, New Utrecht High; the Long Beach, Calif., school in “Mr. Iglesias” is based on Iglesias’s alma mater, Woodrow Wilson. The students are diverse (Italian and Jewish having counted as such for “Kotter” in the late 1970s). Both Gabes are dogged by a humorless administrator who targets their students. Mr. Iglesias even has his own Horshack, an excitable boy named Mikey Gutierrez (Fabrizio Guido), who at one point throws in an “Ooh, ooh” when asking a question.

And despite the radical changes you would expect after 40 years — in language, sexual frankness and political and cultural demonstrativeness — “Mr. Iglesias,” whose 10 episodes hit Netflix on Friday, is every bit the conventional multicamera sitcom that “Kotter” was. Take away the dating-app jokes, and the humor is, if anything, blander and more predictable, the jokes more obvious, the reaction shots more ubiquitous. The show glides along on the self-effacing charm of its star (who uses his stand-up moniker, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, in the credits), but it doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to get anywhere.

[Read more about Netflix’s cancellation of “One Day at a Time.”]

Series like this operate off a set of assumptions, held in place to minimize or eliminate the possibility of surprising the audience. In “Mr. Iglesias,” the orthodoxy is up-to-date, as demonstrated by the summary of American history delivered by a showboating teacher’s pet: “Wiped out the indigenous people, oppressed the blacks, did some good stuff around World War II and now the sun is setting on our empire.”