What kind of offences did you get caned for10

I grew up in NZ, not England. The cane on the bottom was the standard punishment for schoolboys there, the book “Caning: Education Rite” by J. Mercurio provides a good overview, it is reproduced in full somewhere in this forum. Caning didn’t begin to diminish until about 1976 at which time there were often letters to editors of newspapers from parents lamenting that fact. Some of those letters provide about the only insights I have into caning in private girls schools (it was banned in state secondary schools – a clear case of sexual inequality!). The best newspaper was the weekly tabloid “Truth” as its editorial stance supported school cp and accordingly almost all letters were pro-cp, sometimes with specific details – if anyone is interested in looking up old copies in public libraries.
Cp in schools was banned by parliament in 1990 but some schools continued continued using it for quite a while regardless, often by inviting parents to administer it. I posted a newspaper article on this forum about 4 months ago.