Opportunity class - American Education

A special class for students experiencing temporary, relatively mild behavior problems that have proved disruptive in their regular classrooms. Usually held in conjunction with special counseling and tutoring, opportunity classes represent an intermediate approach to coping with behavior problems— midway between permitting incessant disruptions in the regular classroom and exiling a student to INTERMEDIATE (or special) SCHOOLS for chronic behavior disorders. Although successful with some students, opportunity classes often represent a public humiliation that can exacerbate the problems of some students.