The young female teacher who was involved in your Junior School caning was probably not unusual either. At my Infant and Junior schools readiness to use and severity in applying CP was almost in inverse proportion to the age of the teacher. The young lady teacher who administered the punishment made me firmly resolve to try to avoid school CP thereafter
The male teacher whose punishment of a female classmate may possibly have a bearing on my presence here was also relatively young. I think that young teachers perhaps felt they had something to prove in the class control and discipline stakes.