“That sounds like an admission of guilt to me. Well I am not going to give you any more time to adjust to this school and as for motivation – what you are about to receive should motivate you for the rest of your schooldays. For your poor schoolwork, your indiscipline in class and for brawling in public on a bus, I have decided that you deserve eight strokes of the medium cane. Do you agree?”
Head down, hands clasped behind my back I could only nod in agreement.
“Good. Then it is time for you to visit the Swishing Zone. The procedure is as follows. Regrettably unlike when I was a schoolboy Headmasters are no longer able to cane boys on their bare bottoms.