Those started appearing in the late 70’s. My kindergarten class was in one of those.
Hey I just saw one of those yesterday at a school near me! The tradition hasn’t died yet!
They still do that all around me.
At least in the US, Reagan lowered taxes and started cutting funding for public schools. A new building wasn’t in the budget for majority of school districts.
Your parents loved him because he let them keep more of their money. Their boss stopped giving them raises and they didn’t notice because they stopped paying for your school.
That’s why all your elementary school friends are idiots and they grew up cheering for more of this.
Fuck Ronnie Raygun and his dumbass plans for the world.
And they are still there
There’s nothing quite as permanent as a temporary building.
And they call them “portables” haha
I haven’t seen these in the North East in 30 or so years. I’m sure they are still in areas but most of these went away.
At least in our part of the north east, they’ve gone away because there are less kids in the schools. Enrollment and birthdates are both way down in our small towns. Ann my Moms town has closed 2 of the 5 elementary schools.
My wife teaches in one.
You were lucky if your class was in the trailer because it was the only part of the school that had air conditioning
The portables had AC, everyone wanted to go to class in the portables.
Look at Riviera Kid with their fancy AC portables. The rest of us were crammed into windowless hotboxes like simmering sardines during that awkward early puberty phase where everyone was developing BO but hadn’t figured out adult hygiene. It was a bong of adolescent funk.
It was a bong of adolescent funk.
Adolescent Funk Bong is my new band name
Performing their smash hit “Smells like Teen Funk Bong.”
Those “temporary” buildings were at my middle and high schools for decades.
I remember we called them ‘portables’, I huess to avoid implying there was anything temporary about them.
We got one at my elementary school and everyone wanted a class in it because it had AC whereas the main school didn’t.
It’s ABC, your school clearly wasn’t that good
Pretty sure they are still at mine
There are air conditioning units on those. The ones I was in in the 70s had none. Just louvers the teacher wanted kept closed because they ‘interfered with the breeze from the fan’ on his desk. The one facing him. The only fan in the room.
Jesus. This is like the summer version of the “walked uphill both ways in the snow” story haha
My elementary in the 70s didn’t have any AC in North Carolina. Oh and we also had huts too.
Had these in the UK too. Bonus points, we lost a huge chunk of playground/ netball courts in the process.
You had netball courts? Hmph. Luxury.
We were lucky to have a fishnet and a rock!
I had one of those as my form room for the first few years of secondary school because the building where I was supposed to have my form room was full of asbestos.
Yup same and we didn’t get air conditioning either.
These are still used. Dumbest I’ve seen is a new school with them.
That was my high school. Brand new school and 2 years after it’s finished they had to start using these because they didn’t make it big enough.
It’s not great but mobile classrooms are very good when you need to expand but don’t have enough demand for classrooms to fill an expansion of say 5-10 classrooms.
Obviously you want to build more than one at a time but building more than you need is not budget friendly. So aiming for 3 mobile classrooms and starting a 5y construction immediately makes a lot of sense.
Keeping these things permanently is just weird.
Before they rebuilt it in its entirety, the neighbouring school did something similar. The notification to us neighbours listed the construction as a pavilion…
I wish people could understand that taxes when used properly will pay itself back exponentially, you should care more about where your taxes go then the tax rate itself.
The most important part is that your taxes are working for you not that they’re as low as they could possibly be.
There in lies the catch 22 though because in order to understand where your taxes should be going you need a good education.
I think the primary use of taxes is salaries for bureaucrats, both the useful and the useless ones. Next it goes into corruption of politicians.
Really hard to fill a sinkhole that can expand as much as it wants.
Yes I’m reading the anarchist FAQ, how can you tell?
i only knew about these because of malcolm in the middle
