I can well remember during my first year at secondary school, our maths teacher giving the whole class (boys and girls) the belt, for being rowdy outside the classroom before the lesson started.
I picked this theme as one of my Briarwood stories that some of you may have read featured a whole class being caned. A subsequent story tells that the culprit was not even in the class.
I must admit I felt when I wrote it that it was an unlikely event but may be I was wrong.
I went to an all boys school where must boys were caned sometime during their time at the school.