I was taught grade 4 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.
Those are rookie numbers…I did grade 4 twice in one of those
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.
Nothing more permanent than a temporary government installation.
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 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
They’re still there.
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!
Decades are a temporal unit
Hell the house I live in was also made to be temporary, for factory workers almos 100 years ago
You’re temporary.
I wish all the plastic shit I’ll leave behind me for thousands of years would be more temporary too 😩
Sometimes when I consider how literally everything is temporary, it does help me set my priorities and let go of some things.
Yeah a kind of positive nihilism. I’ve used that too. I’ve since learned that this kind of “big picture-ing” (just keep zooming perspective out until problem goes away) is a coping mechanism sometimes referred to as “intellectualising.”
That doesn’t mean it’s bad, but it is a way cope by putting some emotional distance between you and a problem, which can sometimes–what am doing… this is the shit posting community right? My apologies lol
I have actually used the term “positive nihilism” before, lol.
It is very freeing to consider that meaning, value, happiness, and what you “should” do with your life - the right answers come only from within. Finding those answers is easier said than done, and you have to un-learn the expectations you think live has for you. (Insert Yoda quote)
Super easy personal example: I’m an engineer with a bunch of degrees. Covid caused some job changes and pain, but right now I am just over a year into the best job I’ve ever had. But even though work is great, I realized that my career does not matter for shit when it comes to my happiness. Having an infinite growth mindset in one’s career might make your money numbers go up faster, but for MY brain the overall experience of life would be diminished.
I totally agree right down to your example (I’m a software dev). The pandemic was very good to us. I never thought I would have this kind of financial stability. It’s kind of led me to an anti-hustle mindset.
Now I’m taking jobs that let me work less, even though I know I could earn a lot more if I really put my back into it. It’s just not worth it, though.
I’ve only got N years to smell the roses, may as make em good ones.
Funny enough, that current best job of mine is as a software engineer, replacing the amalgam of electronics, software, automation, quality, etc that came before. Intentional choice of course.
Fortunately there are many entertaining and enriching things you can do with adequate time and just a little extra money. Leaving yourself with more money but little time is going to make it tough to improve on what you already had.
Plus even if working less, the working hours are a significant part of your life. Is it really worth 1/3 of your life being more stressful/boring/unfulfilling just so that you get to drive a Mercedes to that shitty place?
Pretty wealth district near us had a cubic shit load of these things.
Looked like the entire school was a “temporary” popup carnival.
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?
I remember that. Along with the distinct smell they all had, the scent of whatever the portable materials were used.
And because of the compact size, all the sound has this sort of reverb to it. It’s not really an echo, just an elevated hum of busy noise, with only the higher pitched ticking current going through the fluorescents.
And how that size also affected the lighting. Somehow even with the florescents it all was oddly sepia toned, no doubt because the only colors on the inside were white, grey, tan, and beige…
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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?
Yes, they will buy Apple phones. That is to say, fall head-first into consumerism.
uneducated people are easier to exploit
I thought these were temporary in that they last several decades, not several years. Permanent school buildings are intended for several generations.
I think they’re called temporary because they have no foundation; if you wanted to, you could easily remove the building.
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.
