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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Public schooling has gotten so strange over the last 2 decades. All these trailers, teachers begging for supplies. Would be surprised if there was some group that was trying to error public education. Is there a benefit to keeping a group of people uneducated?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They were using those trailers back in 1985, but they weren't calling them temporary, it was just the only way they could afford to add classrooms instead of cramming more students in. I was even sitting in one of those watching the space shuttle failed launch on a tv on a cart with a vcr on the lower shelf.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

uneducated people are easier to exploit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yes, they will buy Apple phones. That is to say, fall head-first into consumerism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I only ever saw this in LA

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

in aus they were called demountables. but i never saw a single one demounted. the ones at my old primary school are still there 30 years later.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Nothing more permanent than a temporary government installation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

My 4th grade classroom looked exactly like this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Decades are a temporal unit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Drove by the other day, they replaced them with more perminent, but still prefab buildings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

mine still has the og 90's units and even installed more. and from google earth, the main complex appears to be rotting lol

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In our town, one of the schools was just built 5 years ago. They built it without classrooms. Not a single one. They had a gym, common areas, admin offices, IT infrastructure (office with a server room became the councillors office and the IT guy needs to ask permission to use it lol), bathrooms and library. They designed it so it could be made entirely with portables. From the onset.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

My charter school operated similarly to this. In a sense it's kinda smart on dwindling budgets. If the portables are decent enough it allows the school to rearrange or expand without massive construction/demolition costs.

In the end most classrooms don't need a whole lot, right?

Speculation, of course. Just for once I hope there's not some evil cynical reason behind the way things are done lol .

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They designed it so it could be made entirely with portables.

wtf....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right? To be fair, they used some of the nicest portables I've ever seen. Two portables to a class, windows, a semi permanent foundation, plumbing, HVAC hookup, networking, the works. I had to install WAPs in the drop tile, and it was not the worst thing I've had to do there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Y'all had windows in yours? Fancy!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the "portables" that never moved. They're still at my old school, decades after I've left they're still in the same damn spots.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just checked my old elementary school online. Nearly 40 years later, the same temporary buildings I had class in are still there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

"Nearly forty years ago? This person must be old," I thought. Then I did the math on how long I've been out of school. Oof. Sorry for judging your age, fellow millennial.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My high school was given a $1.5 million check by some alumni who had some success after school and wanted to give back when I was a sophomore. 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. The school now, 21 years after graduation, looks the same as it did when I went except it has a huge ass security fence around campus, a couple more "temp" buildings and the gym is hella nice.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

How many revolutionary acts go

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Didn't yall call them "portables"? At one of my first public schools, they had a big long installation called a "portapac".

Might be a Canadian thing judging from some of the comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

My elementary school in Utah, we also called them portables. Ah the memories!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

In the south east we called them trailers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Here in socal we called them portables.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

And my Tex!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

NorCal as well

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