The second woman would not have offered a non-corporal punishment as an example.
I suppose we’ll never know for certain.
The real question, however, is whether boys would have reacted differently in the same circumstances.
In the first case, the woman clearly believed the punishment was unfair (We don’t know whether it was because we don’t know what caused her delay.
) How many boys would not have resented being caned (or otherwise punished) for a delay that they had no control over?
The second case is more difficult. Punishment was not undeserved, the question is more one of degree and “equivalences” or relative severity.
Would she, perhaps, have preferred a 3-hour Saturday detention or 500 lines? Possibly, but another woman might have really resented those punishments – I know I would have!