"During the course of the next few days, we also had reason to hand out detentions,which were scheduled for between 4 and 6 o'clock. Unfortunately for my girls,they each received, during the course of the week 2 detentions and I had a strict rule about this. The rule was that 2 detentions in the same week would mean a caning and a bare bottom caning at that. I shall describe later how that particular correction was carried out but let me explain now how we ran our detentions. I know many teachers have detentions where the student sits,for an hour, in silence at their desk,or is given work ... Show more