My daughter is a school teacher and she has no discipline problems, she doesn't yell, abuse or hit kids and has nothing but scorn for teachers who do, she works on a system of mutual respect and uses phycology to sort out problem kids and has amazing results, she cured one kid (who had nearly driven his prevous teachers mental) in 2 weeks by simply ignoring his behaviour until he stopped, it worked.
Her kids all love her and she loves them, they will do anything she asks and love going to school.
Maybe love is the answer.
Although you won't get much of that in OLO, I have never met such a bunch of mean spirited, miserable, nasty, hate filled b@stards in my life.

What amazes me alanpoi, is that your daughter was able to use algae to solve disciplinary problems in schoolchildren! This is truly a brave new world. I heard they will be making fuel and food out of the stuff soon too.

I hear bugs live in it and eat it.

Thanks for pointing that out it will be handy for scrabble.
Isn't English a teratoidal language.

When practised by the maladroit it certainly is.

But this is neither corporal nor punishment, so I guess I must add an obligatory sentiment:

Flogging's too good for them, put them in the Big Brother house instead and we can all have a good laugh.

I think that criminals that are not dangerous to the public should be given the OPTION of trading jail for corporal punishment.