We actually liked them when my elementary school was being renovated a million years ago when I was a child because they had AC and the old unrenovated buildings didn’t
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Shout out to Southwestern College. My Community College in SoCal had these.
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.
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 25 for future proofing
Gooberment: Oh, but you only need 15 now? Yeah here's money for 15
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
Happened to me except the plan was the school to expand the number of grades in the school year after year to prevent pulling kids out of their current schools
And they built it to be at capacity day 1
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They're still there.
North Carolina a few years ago tried to put in a policy limiting the number of students per teacher to something like 28. It was pointed out that not only can they not possibly hire enough teachers statewide to meet that demand, the United States also can't build enough of these trailers to meet the demand for classroom space that would require.
We had temporary dorms that were built in the 80s lol
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.
My first high school had 27 of them.
Good ole’ “portables”
I remember they had air conditioning when the rest of the school didn't.
Ours didn't (in the 1980s). They were hot in summer
My school in the 80's only had AC in the main office.
We called them bungalows, haven't seen them in years.
We called them portables.
I remember having to still walk out to those even though the DC sniper shot a kid at a school a few miles away.
Bowie High representing! Was walking to the same temporaries when the shooting at Tasker occurred. Small world...
I went to Roosevelt but had lots of friends from Bowie. My one friend lived right across the street from tasker.
Neighborhoods go through booms and busts of school age kids. These are actually a great solution to get through the boom, then you move them to the next booming neighborhood. Though the schools should be designed so they butt up against the main building and you can go down a hallway into them.
One school I went to has like a third the school with them, but they were down a hallway connected to the school. I didn't even realize they were portables until years later.
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".
I live in the Uk, and both my primary and secondary schools had buildings exactly like these.
My kid goes to a very good school in a nice neighborhood. They just added several of those trailers last year.
Idk why we don't just build 2 story schools but I'm not an architect
A lot of laws (in the States at least) require the capacity to be only what the current student enrollment numbers are at, or at what the enrollment numbers are projected to be when the building is built. This is why you almost always see brand new schools completely full within a few years of being built if they have any sort of normal growth AND why these types of mobile buildings get built. They just don't have any room whatsoever for the student growth. Some schools have started opting for "modular" buildings after the fact to get around this. They're basically permanent buildings but the building is designed so that it can accommodate just about any size room, whether it's offices, classrooms, small gyms, etc.. This allows for the building to be built and ready to go but also not require that it not be an "empty" room so they can kinda sorta have spare classrooms when needed.
money mostly. It's cheaper to do this than it is to build a whole ass new permanent building. Sometimes it's also faster. My highschool (loooong time ago) was planning basically a rolling teardown of the entire campus to rebuild everything like 4X bigger, and to accommodate that they covered a parking lot with these things for the better part of a decade, as they had to wait for summer to do the major "not safe with kids around" construction every year.
This one is really nice. Ours weren't ever that fancy.
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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Pretty wealth district near us had a cubic shit load of these things.
Looked like the entire school was a "temporary" popup carnival.
There's a saying in programming, which I believe applies in most disciplines, that "a temporary solution is a permanent one"; also written as, "no solution is more permanent than a temporary one."
"there's no solution so permanent as a temporary one that works"
I swear that's a shot of my English class in the 9th grade.