Imagine back in the 1970s and we get caught stealing apples from her garden, and the next thing is we're both bending over, bottoms bared, for a hard slippering.
It was annoying, detentions appeared on your report, while slipperings and canings didn't. This particular teacher was extremely effective with a plimsoll, he liked to start most lessons by slippering a couple or lads, only one or two whacks, but very hard. As we had our games lesson next I got to see quite a few red bottoms.