Most certainly when I was in boarding school in the 1960’s such ritualist Edwardian-type school canings were still very much in practice.
Persistent bedwetting was dealt with a Housemasters caning.
Public canings were still occasionally meted out by the Headmaster in front of a full school assembly if he needed to get a point across. All canings in the privacy of the Headmasters study were applied over the bare buttocks.The Headmaster did not limit his corrections to six strokes.
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