The point is that the cane is often wrongly seen as much more severe than it is.
In particular, it is not seen as anywhere near as severe by boys as it is by girls.
I’m going to set the ball rolling and hope others will post to how they rated the various punishments received at school. 1 being the most severe
I’ll list for the two types of schools attended as a result, what would be rated severe in one school may not be rated the same in the other.