The Charter School Achievement First - Hartford and their “Reorientation Room” - Wait, What?

The Charter School Achievement First - Hartford and their “Reorientation Room” - Wait, What?

The Charter School Achievement First – Hartford and their “Reorientation Room”

by jonpelto

According to a recent Hartford Courant story about Achievement First –Hartford’s newly opened high school, “Rolling one’s eyes at a teacher will get a freshman sent to the school’s Reorientation Room, where Dean of School Culture Peter Uwalaka said “’they get the extra culture they need.’”

The Achievement First Family Handbook goes into far more detail about the school’s discipline policy.

Having spoken with parents who have had students attending an Achievement First school, the “Reorientation Room” is a place that students go to work on improving unacceptable behaviors.  Students temporarily lose the privilege of wearing the school uniform. Instead, they wear a practice shirt. Students are not allowed to communicate