Yeah, we called them "Portables." They were there long before I came, and will be there long after I am dead. Long live our plywood fortresses.
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For me it was containers like these:
Long live our tin fortresses
At least you had windows. My kids are in a pretty new school building, but most of the classrooms are located in the middle of the building without windows and natural light. Seems like another one of those "only in America" things.
I remember showing up for tenth grade, looking at the list of assigned classrooms in the first day of the school year. Instead of the usual the digit number, it said "C1". My classmates showed up, and we're just as confused as I was.
The C turned out to be short for "container", which we found in a corner of the school grounds.
That said, being able to quickly go outside in every break was pretty neat. And the school actually did get a second building only a few years later.
Walking through the snow in the Canadian winter from your warm school hallway to the portable for that one class was always torture.
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
was really confused how spongebob fit into this story for awhile
For anyone interested: This meme has been posted by bots to a Reddit community I was active in back then very often.
A bot would mirror these Reddit posts in a Discord server and because this exact meme has been posted there so often, it became an insider at some point, with various people always posting this meme again (because that was itself funny).
That's why I can't take this meme seriously at all.
Why the hell are you taking a meme seriously in the first place. You see it, laugh if it resonates and move on.
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.
They designed it so it could be made entirely with portables.
wtf....
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.
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 .
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.
The most permanent solution is always a temporary solution
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.
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.
I just checked my old elementary school online. Nearly 40 years later, the same temporary buildings I had class in are still there.
"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.
Hell the house I live in was also made to be temporary, for factory workers almos 100 years ago
It just makes me happy that the ramp is compliant with regulations. I’ve seen some pretty shitty ramps.
That happened when the school refused a number of students. The local politicians didn't like that and said the school was not allowed to refuse students anymore. When summer vacation came there were a few dozen more students signed in than they're were chairs in the school. The politicians had no choice but to do some expensive cabin building before school opened for the next year. After that, refusing new students was allowed.
In Norwegian we have this (little known) word 'permasorium', describing the everlasting provisions like these.
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!
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
They were cold as fuck at my school. The AC worked like a charm
Decades are a temporal unit
Had to go check my elementary school on street view... Yup, still there since 30 years ago. Painted at least!
I thought these were temporary in that they last several decades, not several years. Permanent school buildings are intended for several generations.
we called them demountables.
they where never demounted.
We called them portables.
My grade 3 portable is still standing. My children have been taught in it.
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.
My school had the library in a portable unit like that. The thing was ancient, and had barely any insulation and a leaky roof. In the winter months you could see your breath while reading a slightly damp feeling book.
It was eventually demolished, it was too unsound to be portable enough to move any more.
Ah yes let us keep books made of paper in a damp leaky building. What could possibly go wrong
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?
uneducated people are easier to exploit
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.
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?
Nothing more permanent than a temporary government installation.
You know something's afoot when those are signicantly better than the regular buildings.
Good ole’ “portables”
I remember they had air conditioning when the rest of the school didn't.
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.
Y'all had windows in yours? Fancy!
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."
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.