Obviously, when corporal punishment was a normal everyday experience in British schools, there was often a reluctance to punish girls as freely as they did the boys. Quite a few schools would also have a policy where no pupils would be given a formal punishment in the presence of other pupils.
But not all.
Sadly, I went to an all-boys school, but there were definitely times when two or three pupils would be in the office of the headmaster or his deputy, being caned for some joint misdemeanour. It seems quite possible, therefore, that there may have been a few occasions when boys and girls were given a formal punishment in the presence of pupils of the opposite sex. Personally, if the opportunity had presented itself, I would have done something that I knew would result in being caned, if I could implicate a girl into the behaviour so that I got to witness her being caned as well. Maybe not as exciting as in this image from Pandora Blake's wonderful Dreams of Spanking website, but well worth it.
