During my schooling I received the cane seven times, three times in my primary schooling and four times in my secondary schooling. The other form of school corporal punishment was the slipper for minor classroom infractions and I was probably slippered a dozen times.
When I first received the cane in my secondary schooling at age 12 my Headmaster gave me four strokes on my buttocks for not wearing my school cap on the train to school and for not having my socks pulled up and neatly folded at the knee. I was caught by a prefect and he accompanied me to the Headmaster’s study and witnessed my punishment. After I’d had my name recorded in the punishment book I was promptly informed that if I was back in his study again in the semester I would receive six strokes of the cane.