opportunity room
n.— «He had brought a cheat sheet to class and gotten caught. Now the students were sitting in judgment of him.…The six students deliberated and decided the offender deserved three days of in-school suspension, euphemistically called a trip to the “Opportunity Room.”» —“Schools seek way to curb cheating” by Laura Green Palm Beach Post (Florida) Mar. 3, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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