At a cost of more than $200,000 a year per student, it arguably makes more sense for the state to pay for live-in aides to treat children with gentler and proven alternatives at home.

Take the main Double M route back down or, for a gentle alternative, the blue Genepi.

It is a gentler alternative to a state takeover of the city, which has suffered for years from a budget deficit, said Jane Kenny, Commissioner of the State Department of Community Affairs.

Soteria houses are often seen as gentler alternatives to a psychiatric hospital system perceived as authoritarian, hostile or violent and based on routine use of psychiatric (particularly antipsychotic) drugs.

In fact, fruit acids are being pitched as a gentle alternative to Retin-A, with promises of immediate gratification.

A gentler alternative is to continue along the ridge, until reaching the bealach between Sgorr nam Fiannaidh and the Pap of Glencoe.

Many come to yoga as a gentle alternative to vigorous sports or for rehabilitation for injuries.

You have the gentler alternative to study in your terrestrial slums and asylums.

The original Bon Ami formula was developed in 1886 by the J.T. Robertson Soap Company, as a gentle alternative to the gritty quartz-based scouring powders on store shelves.

This is not the case with "natural" dietary supplements, many of which are marketed as kinder and gentler alternatives to standard medicines, but with no rigorous scientific evidence to support the claim.