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                              Holes, only more so
                                        
> Students who fail to grasp this formula are forcefully encouraged to get
> the message. One girl currently has to wear a sign around her neck at all
> times, which reads: “I've been in this programme for three years, and I am
> still pulling crap.”
> 
> When most children first arrive they find it difficult to believe that they
> have no alternative but to submit. In shock, frightened and angry, many
> simply refuse to obey. This is when they discover the alternative. Guards
> take them (if necessary by force) to a small bare room and make them (again
> by force if necessary) lie flat on their face, arms by their sides, on the
> tiled floor. Watched by a guard, they must remain lying face down,
> forbidden to speak or move a muscle except for 10 minutes every hour, when
> they may sit up and stretch before resuming the position. Modest meals are
> brought to them, and at night they sleep on the floor of the corridor
> outside under electric light and the gaze of a guard. At dawn they resume
> the position.
> 
> This is known officially as being “in OP”—Observation Placement—and more
> casually as “lying on your face”. Any level student can be sent to OP, and
> it automatically demotes them to level 1 and zero points. Every 24 hours,
> students in OP are reviewed by staff, and only sincere and unconditional
> contrition will earn their release. If they are unrepentant? “Well, they
> get another 24 hours.”
> 

Via Robot Wisdom [1], “The last resort [2]”

I don't have much to comment on this, other than perhaps Spring [3] could use
it to scare the kids into good behavior.

[1] http://www.robotwisdom.com/
[2] http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,987172,00.html
[3] http://www.springdew.com/

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