I had some that looked exactly like this

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• systemguy_64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Welcome to government funding.

  School District: we need a new school

  Enrollment: 4200

  Government: Awesome, here’s $4.2 million, go build the 4200 student school.

  SD: Uhh, won’t that take a few years? Should we add some buffer space to the plan?

  Government: ehh, naah

  Spongebob 3 years later: Welcome to Springfield High School!

  Enrollment: 6900

  Springfield: see, gooberment, we needed more classrooms!

  Gooberment: heh, would you look at that. Lol. Well, use your budget to build some portables.

  SD: Us? Why don’t you pay!?!?

  Gooberment: Oh, haha, yeah, that’s an operating expense. We only fund capital projects! Don’t worry, give us a plan to expand and we can fund you in 10 years

  10 years later: Ok gooberment, our numbers say we need 15 classrooms. But for the expansion, we should do 20 for future proofing

  Gooberment: Oh, but you only need 15 now? Yeah here’s money for 25

  2 years later: Here’s 15 classrooms!

  SD: We need 25…

  Gooberment: Oh, yeah, get some portables and talk to us in a few years!

  Rinse and repeat

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• Crow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Walking through the snow in the Canadian winter from your warm school hallway to the portable for that one class was always torture.

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• slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does anybody remember the way the floors had a springiness to them and how they squeaked and creaked as you walked across them?

  How about the mental kind of threshold-looking strip in the middle of the floor from wall to wall where I believe they had connected two halves together, if I recall?

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  • wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember that. Along with the distinct smell they all had, the scent of whatever the portable materials were used.

    And because of the compact size, all the sound has this sort of reverb to it. It’s not really an echo, just an elevated hum of busy noise, with only the higher pitched ticking current going through the fluorescents.

    And how that size also affected the lighting. Somehow even with the florescents it all was oddly sepia toned, no doubt because the only colors on the inside were white, grey, tan, and beige…

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Although they suck, neighborhoods go through booms and busts of school age kids. These are actually a great solution to get through the boom, then nicei them to the next booming neighborhood, leaving the core school. Though the schools should be designed so they butt up against the main building and you can go down a hallway into them.

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• oooboga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Norwegian we have this (little known) word ‘permasorium’, describing the everlasting provisions like these.

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like it! In German we call temporary solutions a “Provisorium” and often say that they stay for ever (Nichts hält länger als ein Provisorium). I like the idea of making a permanent Provisorium into a single word!

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My school was given a $1.5 million check by some alumni who had some success after school and wanted to give back. It was supposed to be used for a new multipurpose room and chem lab.

  They never did that and instead put it all into the football program.

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• slurpeesoforion@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember they had air conditioning when the rest of the school didn’t.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ours didn’t (in the 1980s). They were hot in summer

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My school in the 80’s only had AC in the main office.

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• solidsnake2085@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We called them portables.

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• metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  we called them demountables.

  they where never demounted.

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• marker2002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Had to go check my elementary school on street view… Yup, still there since 30 years ago. Painted at least!

  Image

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One time I shoved a crayon in the lock on one of these hoping class would be cancelled.

    Instead we had to stand outside until the custodian showed up and fixed it.

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• pohart@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I thought these were temporary in that they last several decades, not several years. Permanent school buildings are intended for several generations.

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• LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was taught grade 4 in one of those

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  • Entropywins@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those are rookie numbers...I did grade 4 twice in one of those

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Terrapin block.

  The ones at my school actually look like they’ve been torn down now (having lasted a good 50 years or so), and replaced with a whole new set of temporary buildings for future generations to marvel at.

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These are incredibly useful. In Iceland we have mobile classrooms that can be moved by truck. If you need only one or two classrooms then these do the job but as soon as you get to 5 it justifies building a new wing of 10 classrooms. Incrementally building 1-2 classrooms is not the best use of public money.

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What you point out makes sense, but I can’t stop thinking of a classroom that’s being moved as students are taking class in it 🤣 would be fun when I was a student, also it’s pretty dangerous (but still fun)

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• mmagod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ahh yes the “portables”

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• hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember having to still walk out to those even though the DC sniper shot a kid at a school a few miles away.

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• fidodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just checked my old elementary school, and surprisingly they’re gone and what looks like new permanent buildings in another location! They were there as of 2 years ago, but now it’s extra blacktop and and even more recently a solar panel array. It took about 3 decades but they finally did it.

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• tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My kid goes to a very good school in a nice neighborhood. They just added several of those trailers last year.

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• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know something’s afoot when those are signicantly better than the regular buildings.

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re still up at my school I believe

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• FarFarAway@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait yalls had that many windows? These look nice. Ours looked like someone gutted a corrugated metal double wide and put a divider wall in the middle to make 2 “classrooms.” There was 1 larger window on the backside, and 1 door in the front of each room.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re still there.

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• Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We had temporary dorms that were built in the 80s lol

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• Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Needs more jpeg

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah it’s about the right amount for the nostalgia

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• leanleft@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItCToQSSdhQ

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup. Cooked in the summer, froze in the winter, leaked in the rain, they stuck half of my freshman classes out in those fuckers in tornado country.

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen those anywhere around me - must be a US thing. I guess the whole temporary thing is more of a “we don’t have permission to build anything permanent and this can be dismantled if needed”, not necessarily “this will be here temporarily”.

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  • sjmarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I live in the Uk, and both my primary and secondary schools had buildings exactly like these.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aka: My 6th grade classroom.

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• jagungal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fun fact: you don’t need a DA for these*, so they are a hell of a lot cheaper to install. *Subject to jurisdiction

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