They’re still there.
It just makes me happy that the ramp is compliant with regulations. I’ve seen some pretty shitty ramps.
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.
I was taught grade 4 in one of those
Those are rookie numbers…I did grade 4 twice in one of those
They had these in Canada too?
Absolutely. They pitched them as a way to expand space cheaply so they could save money to build a new school. We were told that our grad class of 05 would be either the last in the old school or the first in the new one.
It’s still the old one.
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.
I’m pretty sure ours are still there 23 years later.
I’m pretty sure ours was asbestos… back in the 80s.
Demountables for us
Did you go to Summer Heights High?
Not far off
For me it was containers like these:
Long live our tin fortresses
What’s with the cable at the top between sections?
Grounding, to make sure the containers stay at the same electric potential
Not only at the top, there’s also cables at the bottom between sections and what looks like a cable duct mounted in front of it with a bunch of cables coming out at the top
The cable duct looks like ac lines, and the yellow cables at the bottom are probably grounding
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.
Yeah the “middle” was the school yard surrounded by narrow buildings
I’m sad to report it’s very much not limited to America. My local university had these things pop up to some considerable height because one of the buildings was condemned due to mold. Condemned about three years ago and is still standing. There’s also a number of schools using these things because they burned down or got condemned or whatever, I’m not entirely sure. At least one of those has been going two years longer than it was supposed to.
Oh, I’m not talking about these “temporary” container-like structures. I’m talking about newly built permanent school buildings that have no windows in the classrooms. I’ve never seen that outside the US.
I would guess that it depends on health regulations. For instance, in some (most?) countries it’s illegal to have a hotel room without a window and I presume, the same is applied to school rooms.
Makes me wonder if there are school rooms without windows in China, where you are allowed to build hotels without windows 🤔
My school had several holes in the middle of the building to avoid this. Most of them are just filled with gravel
I was searching the thread to see if everyone called them that or if it was regional.
Portables
Yup, that’s what I was told they were called.
Needs more jpeg
Nah it’s about the right amount for the nostalgia
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.
Drove by the other day, they replaced them with more perminent, but still prefab buildings.
mine still has the og 90’s units and even installed more. and from google earth, the main complex appears to be rotting lol
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.
Y’all had windows in yours? Fancy!
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.
Had to go check my elementary school on street view… Yup, still there since 30 years ago. Painted at least!
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.
How many revolutionary acts go
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.
Here in socal we called them portables.
Same in NM
And my Tex!
NorCal as well
In the south east we called them trailers.
Yar
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
Yeah, I had one for third grade, and since we weren’t near any drinking fountains, we got our own water cooler, which the other classes were jealous of! That place was like our little apartment, I loved it.
We called them bungalows, haven’t seen them in years.
