What does public caning mean?

It is a form of judicial corporal punishment that is legal in many countries. The guilty person is taken to a public place (hence "public") and beaten with a switch/stick (made from bamboo, hence "cane"). The sentence usually specifies the number of lashes the person receives. This punishment made international headlines several years ago when an 18yr.old American living in Singapore was found guilty of vandalizing a car. His sentence was 6 lashes on his bare bottom.

You may be too young to remember a well publicized case from 1994, in which an American boy in Singapore was given a public caning for vandalizing cars.

In this case, the guy was given six lashes with a cane on his buttocks.

In numerous countries, punishment for crimes in corporal, not incarceration.

It means being beaten with a Rattan Cane

Beat with a long stick in public. A cane as in "bamboo cane"

It is a punishment where criminals receive a public and painful beating with a cane.

public caning

Teacher's Unions have argued for years that teachers are not responsible for their inability to teach children, and therefore merit pay and other positive, but individualized, incentives should not be used in attempts to create more productive classrooms. Meanwhile, politicians have gotten into the discussion with high stakes testing based measures of classroom, school, and LEA effectiveness like NCLB because the schools are not producing. Colleges report exceptionally high remediation rates across the board. Perhaps the correct answer is to implement corporal punishment as a negative incentive for teachers and administrators who fail to make the grade, since union rules typically make it nearly impossible to fire a non-performing one. BTW, when corporal punishment was widely used, compulsory attendance wasn't. The schools are now attempting to teach children that are higher risk than in days of yore. There have also been massive changes in curricula, methodology, and even educational philosophy that impact how we look at how well schools and students are doing. Different demographics, different measurements, and different objectives: one must be careful to compare apples with apples when stating that academic achievement has been suffering.

beating you with a cane. It comes from the word, "cane."

Remember Michael Faye...Malaysia in the 1990s?

You are struck on your buttocks with a cane of bamboo, in public.

it's a stick that look like a cane that is used in punishment

Old fashioned term for getting beaten with a cane. I do think it was for a criminal offense.. I am not sure tho.