For example, only the HM, Deputy, and senior masters were authorized to inflict CP in high school but there were occasions when a teacher would call a misbehaving student to the front of the class and give them a jolly good wallop on the bum. This generally halted the problem, set an example for others, and saved the offender from time out of the classroom and a possible caning. Why would anyone complain?
Our sports teacher was weekly faced with students like me who failed to bring their sports clothes and presented him with a supervision problem – we couldn’t participate in uniform and he had to leave us in the change rooms alone.