Positive. Like being whipped with a chain.

I'm sure the most pressing worries most of you have involve what would happen to Pioneer without a more strict discipline system. Fortunately, Principal Michael White has addressed your concerns. With the new "honor-level system," you no longer need fear a lack of discipline at Pioneer.
Having guaranteed detention to students who are tardy to class, Mr White has several other plans for Pioneer's disciplinary future. He hopes to one day set up a system in which whenever a student is tardy or misses an assignment, he will be taken out back and whipped with a chain while listening to repetitive meaningless PA announcements proclaiming the speaker as "Mr. White, your principal," until he surrenders all his electronic devices and agrees to call Mr. White Chancellor. The next step will be to set up an iron maiden in Mr White's office, in which will be placed all students on Academic Probation.
Since the start of the school year, the whole administration has been talking about the honor-level system and how it uses positive reinforcement to make students be good little children. I may be just missing the positive part, but if anyone else sees it I would really appreciate if they would tell me what it is, how it's positive, and what they have been smoking.
Burnout