Eva:
What Leslie describes above is similar to my experience at school in France. It was a boarding school - girls only. Punishment was in front of the class, so that all present learn from the example.One was required to bend over the desk of the teacher. The skirt was lifted onto one's back and the martinet whipped on the knickers. Where the tip of the lanières strike on bare skin at the side of the knicker, it is like bee stings ! One of the teachers always finished with one on the top of each thigh, left and right. It is not something which one forgets !
Scope for a fine story here, wouldn't you say, Eva?