I was sent for the cane when I was fourteen and in the third year of school.
All teachers could use the cane but not all teachers had canes of their own. I had been annoying the geography teacher for some time and I think I had just gone too far and he sent me to Mr James, the English teacher and head of middle school to borrow his cane.
It was very embarrassing knocking on the classroom door where he was teaching another third-year class and having to give him Mr Drake’s compliments and ask him for the cane. I remember that he asked me if it was for me and I had to say yes.