opportunity class

plural opportunity classes

1. AustraliaeducationA separate primary-school class for teaching gifted children.
2. historicaleducationA separate class for teaching backward children.

   Opportunity classes. — These are classes for retarded overgrown pupils. Many of these children come to our city from rural areas where their education has been irregular.

   1944, United States. Congress. House, Hearings, volume 9, page 361

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   Mildly retarded children, who are usually termed "educable mentally retarded" formed the largest group of handicapped children in Alberta. Most of them attended "Opportunity Classes".

   1969, Alberta. Dept. of Education, Annual Report of the Department of Education, page 78

   Synonyms: opportunity room