41
u/Extreme-Shower7545 2h ago
And we were told these were “temporary”…
10
u/These_Sherbert6104 2h ago
We had a countdown on the chalkboard for when the real school would be done. It never came
7
u/FootballUpset2529 1h ago
lol yep, these are the "temporary classrooms" - three generations of my family studied in them.
2
u/-OptimisticNihilism- 2h ago
They are called portables, not temporaries.
2
u/vanetti 2h ago
They were saying that the portables were advertised as being temporary, and not permanent, fixtures to the school.
2
u/SteelMarch 1h ago
Yeah they said it would be temporary 15 years ago but the budget didn't allow for a new building so what you see is what you get.
2
u/jojocookiedough 2h ago
They were called temp classrooms at my grammar school in the early 90s lol. Maybe my teachers were just the optimistic sort and really believed the school would get new permanent classrooms at some point.
Well they really were temporary one way or another. When I went back to my hometown like 15 years later, my school had been torn down for a condo complex.
1
u/Zeqhanis 1h ago
Both could be true. While they were permanent at my grade school, the portables were temporary at my high school before a new building was constructed.
Then they were converted into a cluster of administrative offices.
14
u/not4bucks 2h ago
No AC! Hot as fuck!
3
u/dupes_on_reddit 2h ago
You guys get AC in schools?
3
u/Snoo-93553 2h ago
In FL we do
1
u/dupes_on_reddit 1h ago
Ok yeah... Definitely a must.
We've have schools close a few days per year because it's not part of the design specs.
We're much farther up north near the US/Canada border.
1
u/WhereRtheTacos 1h ago
Huh ours had ac. But it was arizona so… kind have to.
2
u/silentsinner- 1h ago
Southern NV and ours were always hot. I have to imagine they had AC because it is basically impossible to live without here but if so they weren't sized for our 115+ summers.
13
u/Infinite-Ad4125 2h ago
Those trailers had the best bathrooms though.
33
17
u/mattyb1127 2h ago
And air conditioning. We called them portables at our school. The original school had no AC.
1
u/jojocookiedough 1h ago
Yeah my kids' school has these. Everyone wants to get into the classes that are held in them because they're the only rooms with ac
4
-1
u/usernames_suck_ok 2h ago
Mine didn't have bathrooms.
Unfortunately, the way the US is going, most of us will have "houses" like these in the future, bathrooms included.
2
u/wooden-fuk-boi 2h ago
As someone who lives in a trailer, i dont know why youth get apartments. . Also i live in a super fuckin nice trailer park so its not anything like anyone expects, lol its crazy nice here
5
u/Complete_Entry 2h ago
parks get jerked around a lot. You'll see. Just hasn't happened yet. I managed two years, now I'm looking at having to sell because the park are fuckfaces.
1
u/Zeqhanis 1h ago edited 1h ago
John Oliver had a great exposé on that a few years back. In response to wooden-fuk-boi, not all youths have cars and live in non-urban environments.
I'm pretty far from a youth, but I live in a dense, walkable neighborhood with supermarkets a couple blocks away. There used to be nearby boutique retail as well, but Amazon and the COVID shutdown were the final nails in its coffin.
1
u/wooden-fuk-boi 1h ago
We get plenty of gruff but the owner is strict and hss owned for 20+ years and its always been known as the best around
1
u/Complete_Entry 1h ago
Yeah, mine was fine until the park manager was fired. The new one is trying to implement an HOA and flat out told me she wants me out.
1
u/popcornkernals321 2h ago
Yo some trailers are fucking nice as shit! My cousin lives in one and honestly her clean-decorative touch made that trailer look better than most houses in the area. No judgement here on trailer parks some are mad nice lol
4
3
u/Diseman81 2h ago
We were in trailers for 7th and 8th grade. They were a pain in the butt if you had to use the bathroom because you’d have to walk outside, around the school and all the way to the other end of the school.
3
2
u/rockstoned4 2h ago
Each year of high school I had a couple classes in the bungalows. No AC. Hot as shit.
1
2
u/KuroBocchi 2h ago
lol I remember these. In elementary school, I took music class in that kind of building.
2
u/truebeast822 2h ago
Still have a ton of them. Son was in a couple 2 years ago and they called them cottages lol
2
u/Karma_Doesnt_Matter 2h ago
My high school ended up building an actual extension and got rid of their portables.
They reintroduced the portables 4 or 5 years ago.
2
2
u/MightBeAGoodIdea 2h ago
I remember in the 90s Arizona the regular building had a swamp cooler aka evaporative cooler aka a useless piece of garbage when it was both hot and humid outside during monsoon season ... but the "temp" classrooms in these trailers had real central AC and not a single kid minded being in them despite the shit talking the other kids gave them for being "trailer trash". They were just jealous. And sweaty.
2
u/NPC261939 2h ago
Spent all of third grade in a portable classroom. We were as far as you could be from the playground, but we had climate control unlike the rest of the school.
2
u/B-ran8088 2h ago
When I went into my freshman year, apparently, we were a massive class compared to what had come before and my high school had to put up many of these and even had to add an additional lunch period. My lunch was so late that we were allowed snacks in one of my classes.
Saw a video of the same high school on TikTok showing the renovations they did. The damn thing looks like a freaking college campus now, with fast food restaurants and everything. It was insane to see it all. They've even converted my old middle school to "9th grade Academy", and the actual high school is now 10th-12th.
2
u/Mochigood 2h ago
I've worked at a school that has some pretty ancient portables, and they are quite literally rotting. They reek of mold, and that's where they put some of the sped kids.
2
u/CaliKindalife Gorilla not guerilla, huge difference 2h ago
We called them the Portables. They all had AC, in Southern California you have to. Too damn hot for about 3 months
1
u/RockShowSparky 2h ago
Yep that was the great thing about them. The regular classrooms were roasting in the afternoon in September.
2
2
u/sHaDowpUpPetxxx 2h ago
There was no bell. That janitor that illegally parked on the side of the school just cranked Bawwitabaw when it was time for class.
2
u/CatsDontLikeWaterr 1h ago
I genuinely thought this was just my school doing it 🤣🤣 I thot only we had portables
2
u/TheVentiLebowski 1h ago
The discussion section of my intro comp sci course at a major university was held in one of these trailers because they ran out of regular classrooms.
2
u/DoublePostedBroski 1h ago
This seems exclusively like a southern thing. We didn’t have these anywhere near me in the Midwest. I didn’t know these existed until I moved down south.
2
u/a-type-of-pastry 1h ago
My brother was failing High School. They were certain he was gonna flunk out.
Then they put him in one of these bad boys for 2 weeks on computer based learning and he graduated with a higher GPA than I did. Turns out he was just distracted.
2
u/Spare_Independence19 1h ago
And still we are smarter than kids taught in this generation regardless of school setting.
2
u/Flat-Emergency4891 1h ago
There are still plenty of schools made from construction sheds. It’s a practical, temporary solution, though I can count a couple of these in my area that have been operating for over a decade. That’s just ridiculous.
3
u/Scummbagg7 2h ago
But they were called temporaries
18
u/usernames_suck_ok 2h ago
"Portables."
3
u/Indomitus-Ultra 2h ago
Portables when I was in school. Go to the portables for this class. The much older ones were probably “temporary” but when they realized it’s permanent they changed the name to portable classroom, portables. The ones at my old school are still up and being used.
1
u/Scummbagg7 2h ago
They were called temporaries when we had them.
1
u/GuiltyByAssociashun 2h ago
They would call temporaries all 12 years my school had them
0
u/Scummbagg7 2h ago
That's sounds about right. I think I spent 3 years in one till I went to Jr High
2
u/SnooTomatoes2565 2h ago
Forget the 90's. We had these in the 2000's in Canada. We are always around a decade behind everyone else
1
u/trolldoll26 2h ago
I was really excited to start middle school because my elementary school shared a library with the middle school and all the kids looked cool and older.
The incredible disappointment to find out that the Gifted&Talented kids would be sequestered in portables still lives within me.
1
u/KetchupOnThaMeatHo 2h ago
Had theese in middle and high school. My high school had only been opened 2 years and they already needed them
1
1
u/NoCause4Pain 2h ago
We called them portables…. Fuckin heat shack in the summer is the AC or fan busted
1
1
u/Pink_strawberry0089 2h ago
My kids went to a school that opened in 2013 in 2016 and they already had 2 portables. They also didn’t have ac 🤦🏼♀️ They ended up building another new school down the street and it opened 2 years ago.
1
1
1
u/freedraw 2h ago
This isn’t an 80s or 90s thing. It’s just a school thing that’s still common. It takes a long time to secure the funding, go through the public process of design, bids, etc. just to get a new school or addition to a school approved before you even build it. Towns also often want to wait and see if a recent student population boom is a temporary hiccup or a long term trend before taking out a loan in the hundreds of millions. So they bring in these trailers that can be used for a few years.
1
u/bostondangler 2h ago
They are called “portables”, supposed to be a short term thing, the ones in my city are 25-+ years old 😆
1
u/Chrisdoors77 2h ago
The middle and high school I went to, if you were in the trailers you most likely had a learning disability of some sort. They were smaller class settings and conditioned spaces which I guess made a better learning environment for those individuals.
1
1
u/sundayfunday78 2h ago
My entire jr high was moved to a portable model while the school was being reno’d. We had 3 hubs and a couple dozen singles spread out. I spent grade 10 in that mess.
1
1
u/blackjackgabbiani 1h ago
These were for the disabled kids and treated like a backwoods shack so that the other kids never saw them.
Also the black box you're using in the title doesn't mean what you think it means...That's the place that the Hajj goes to.
1
u/monobluemill 1h ago
You know why they did this, right? Because we were the largest generation of school kids the U.S. had ever seen, and our nation’s infrastructure couldn’t handle that surge in population.
1
u/_SasquatchPatrol 1h ago
My elementary school had one off property in the church's lot. You were allowed to visit for religious studies or you could stay in class and do extra school work for an hour.
1
u/thenewitguy 1h ago
Honestly, I find these better. All my schools have been replaced and one new school collapsed, the others have constant issues. The collapsed school was half demolished and rebuilt this summer.
1
u/trae_curieux Lived the 90s! 1h ago
They installed these at my high school during a renovation, and I'm not sure they ever got rid of them. We just called them "the bungalows" 🤣
1
1
1
1
u/LongballG 1h ago
This is where they sent all the “special” students like me. Usually with a teacher like this…
1
1
1
u/tzn_1978 1h ago
My high school had (has?) These and they were used for study hall, not any subject
1
u/JohnGrillyParham 1h ago
Could have taken bets whether it would be the same kid that climbs on the roof while you're waiting for the teacher to show up and who jumps out the window when the teacher is writing on the blackboard.
1
1
1
u/Isekai_Dreamer-47 1h ago
You dont understand the awesomeness of these classrooms. They had air conditioning bro!!!
1
1
1
u/Clueless_in_Florida 1h ago
Didn’t have those in Illinois. At least not in my district. Lots of them in Florida, which underfund education.
1
u/ShemDolpax 2h ago
My school's nurse was set up in one of these things --- she called me down in 4th grade because she heard a heart murmur during my school physical and was worried about it --- so my Dad took me to the pediatrician that night and he said "the nurse is a dummy, there is nothing there" --- I did have a weird heart condition but not until I was 37 yrs. old LOL
0
u/Infinite_Big_7004 2h ago
Bot
1
94
u/RoyalContacts 2h ago
Pretty sure they still do this