If you had 3 or more “unsatisfactory” reports you got 3 strokes of the cane.
I got my third unsatisfactory on a Thursday.
I spent the whole weekend at home knowing I was going to get caned on Monday morning.
I tried not to show anything was wrong when I went to school on Monday but by now I was very frightened as you might imagine.
When the time came about 6 of us lined up outside the Headmasters study.