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I 60's Canings

At my junior school, if you did anything wrong you got a detention (one lady teacher in particular gave detentions for extremely minor things). If you got four detentions in one term you were caned. In my first year I remember a boy in my class bursting into tears when he was given a fourth detention. But he wasn't actually caned, because his parents intervened to prevent it. I thought this was very unfair. If I had ever got four detentions, my parents would have expected me to take my punishment.

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SteveH1954 · 61-69, M

At my secondary school we also had a rule that four detentions in a single term meant the cane. Boys got it in front of the detention class when the head came in but girls got it in the privacy of the senior mistress's office and were then march to the detention class by her.

It was 4 strokes for four detentions and 6 strokes if you got any more that same term.