Morwen: FYI re note above on schools: particularly so in sub-Saharan African countries. I lived for a while in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, where my wife had a year's lectureship at Freetown Univ. We had some neighbours who were diplomats at US Embassy, so their children had to go to local school; where the usual punishment for misdemeanours was for the offending pupil {boy or girl} to be sent to cut a switch for his/her own buttocks from the trees in the yard. They, & their Embassy, did not think it would be expedient to apply for any sort of diplomatic immunity for their children, who were accordingly subject to the same punishment as all the other children. It didn't seem to bother them much; indeed, I got the impression they were rather proud of being able to take it as well as any of the others, and looked forward to its being a good story which would bring them some cred with their peers when they got back to school in the States!