The most-caned boys were as follows:
Boy1 had 24 incidents, 57 strokes applied, or 2.4 average strokes per incident
Boy2 also had 24 incidents, 72 strokes applied, or 3.0 average strokes per incident
Boy3 had 23 incidents, 41 strokes applied, or 1.8 average strokes per incident
The youngest boy on route to a record was an 11-year-old, who had already logged 13 incidents of 1 to 3 strokes, 26 strokes applied, or 2.0 average strokes per incident. This also means he was caned more than once per month in his first year. That is most concerning because this method (based on recidivism) was obviously not working, and likely causing unintended harm. So here’s a shining example where the root of the problem needed to be identified and other methods tried.