Walking through the snow in the Canadian winter from your warm school hallway to the portable for that one class was always torture.
I had some that looked exactly like this
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Crow@lemmy.world 9 months ago
slingstone@lemmy.world 9 months 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?
wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 9 months 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…
someguy3@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
oooboga@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In Norwegian we have this (little known) word ‘permasorium’, describing the everlasting provisions like these.
lugal@lemmy.world 9 months 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!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months 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.
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 9 months ago
I remember they had air conditioning when the rest of the school didn’t.
psud@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ours didn’t (in the 1980s). They were hot in summer
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 months ago
My school in the 80’s only had AC in the main office.
solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We called them portables.
metaStatic@kbin.social 9 months ago
we called them demountables.
they where never demounted.
marker2002@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Had to go check my elementary school on street view… Yup, still there since 30 years ago. Painted at least!
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 9 months 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.
pohart@programming.dev 9 months ago
I thought these were temporary in that they last several decades, not several years. Permanent school buildings are intended for several generations.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I was taught grade 4 in one of those
Entropywins@kbin.social 9 months ago
Those are rookie numbers...I did grade 4 twice in one of those
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months 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.
olafurp@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
sukhmel@programming.dev 9 months 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)
mmagod@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ahh yes the “portables”
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
fidodo@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
tacosplease@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My kid goes to a very good school in a nice neighborhood. They just added several of those trailers last year.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
You know something’s afoot when those are signicantly better than the regular buildings.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They’re still up at my school I believe
FarFarAway@startrek.website 9 months 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.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
They’re still there.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 9 months ago
We had temporary dorms that were built in the 80s lol
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 9 months ago
Needs more jpeg
sirico@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Nah it’s about the right amount for the nostalgia
leanleft@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
kamen@lemmy.world 9 months 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”.
sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I live in the Uk, and both my primary and secondary schools had buildings exactly like these.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Aka: My 6th grade classroom.
jagungal@lemmy.world 9 months 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
systemguy_64@lemmy.world 9 months 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