In the '80s and 90s? My kids schools still have these. It's called not properly funding your schools.
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Your school probably still has the same ones. Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Strange thing in my area, since I was born, I think they've built 10 middle schools. I went to a brand new school in 8th grade, I played in the band at that school's groundbreaking. They haven't built a high school since 1975. All three of the county high schools have had additions and new wings built on campus, but they haven't built another high school since what, the Carter administration?
They may not be hauling them in around my area anymore but it’s only because they still have them from the 90s.
I'll have you know that they were still putting the "gifted and talented" kids in one of these into the early 2010s.
We placed special education students in ours...I was a student and even then thought that was messed up.
Ahh yes the heat stroke method of making sure they don't have to worry about moving you up a grade.
Look how fancy those ones are with an AC unit on the side. We were lucky to have a fan in qld.
Right??? Fucking 45 degrees in the death box.
Came here to say the same :-)
The ones I went to school in were nowhere near as nice looking on the outside as the ones in this photo.
Ours had HVAC, unlike some of the other comments, but where I live in the USA we have laws regarding the minimum and maximum allowable temperatures so I guess that's why. Still sucked because these things would get uncomfortably hot and muggy during hot weather, but at least we were out of school most of the summer sparing us from the worst of it.
On the other hand, our "mobile classrooms" didn't have bathrooms and only one tiny window that doubled as a fire escape.
The communal bathrooms were on the other side of the school, so the teachers would be very choosy about who they'd let go and what reasons qualified during instructional time. Scheduled bathroom breaks meant the whole class walked over to the restroom area and everybody had to go all at once.
There was a water dispenser machine with 1 oz paper cups (super tiny, basically a shot glass size) and there was a ridiculously low and strict limit on how many "cups" of water each student was allowed each day (I don't recall, but maybe 2 or 3).
Anyway, I have some family still living in the area where I attended school back in the ancient times whose kids who go to that same school. 30 years later and it is still basically a trailer park of mobile classrooms. So, it seems several generations beyond just 80's and 90's kids get to experience the joy of these things!
Ah so your schools don't still have them?
I mean TBF, most neighborhoods have a cyclical bump in the number of children. Or did at least. This is more cost effective than having a half empty "new" school in 15 years.
Although I think the current trend is to build bigger schools and bus the kids. So there would be less local variation.
If we weren't so allergic to having adults around campus that would just be a place we could do stuff like ESL classes or EMT certification, etc...
The idea that we can only use schools for kids is a classic first world problem.
Some schools do, but you're right. The buildings are way under utilized.
Well it's not like anything is "cost effective" under capitalism. The system is literally destroying the planet so a few worthless dickheads can have yachts.
Just give the kids a decent building with some windows/AC. It is literally nothing compared to the privilege of actual scumbags. The school-to-prison pipeline is real enough. No need to rush it.
Well then you have the mistake of mostly electing people who went to law or business school to the state legislature. I'm convinced business school is where you go to regain your illiteracy. They mandated that the maximum allowable student to teacher ratio be decreased from 32 to 28. By the next school year.
They had to be informed that 1. even if they went to every university in the state and hired on the spot everyone graduating with an degree in education, and chained all the teachers who were quitting to their desks, they'd still have to hire from out of state. 2. There was not a school in the state that had enough classrooms for that, and 3. The United States and Canada put together did not have the manufacturing capacity to make that many of these trailers in seven months.
Lawyers live in one reality, businessmen in another, neither of which is Earth.
Now they build a new school for exactly as many students as they have now, because pattern recognition is for communists.
Well people aren't having as many kids now because it costs too much.
The govt in the states is probably going to make birth control illegal so you have to have kids.
Gotta fill those portable schools with unwanted forced birth children.
The govt in the states is probably going to make birth control illegal so you have to have kids.
That's ok, they're dropping vaccines at the same time so the population won't change much with all the kids dying of measles, and probably in not much time also polio.
My elementary school had 3 “portable classrooms” back in the 70s.
My elementary school still has 5 of these
We did not have these in the northeast. At least not at my schools. And my town was po'.
Didn't discover the concept of "portables" until moving to the west coast and was kind of astonished.
Had these at my middle school in Connecticut. Winter was cold
Ah, portables. What a wonderfully disappointing memory.
I think ours were unheated. I remember that is where I learnt what shivering is.
Did you know those AC units are the perfect height for their sharp lower corners to reach the top of a kid's skull? I ended up learning that fact the hard way.
Shameful. Putting kids in shacks while we waste our lives serving capital so some worthless dickhead can have a yacht.
trailer park children is absolutely crazy
I completely forgot that was a thing.
I drove by my elementary school a year or two ago and those same buildings were still there lol