The scary headmistress in my first school, (and boy was she scary)often left monitors in charge of classes. Not because she was scared of anarchy breaking out but because she liked to encourage a healthy spirit of tale telling amongst the monitors.
Our monitors at the infants school were called Janet and John . This sticks in my mind because our early readers were called Janet and John books. Anyway they were a prize pair and if they earned you a pair of smacked legs, the usual infants classroom punishment, they would grin like a pair of cheshire cats.
Children were sent over the road for the cane, so they might well have had an escort. All victims returned in tears but i can’t remember much more about it. I do remember being told off for talking with my friend and when my friend carried on i remember the youngish attractive schoolteacher insist he take down his trousers and pants for a caning. He ended up being taken ouside and later he returned in a tearful state so i can’t say if he was caned or not.