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.
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.
They’re still up at my school I believe
Needs more jpeg
Nah it’s about the right amount for the nostalgia
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 was asbestos… back in the 80s.
Portables
Yup, that’s what I was told they were called.
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.
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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 🤔
Yeah the “middle” was the school yard surrounded by narrow buildings
What’s with the cable at the top between sections?
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
Grounding, to make sure the containers stay at the same electric potential
Demountables for us
Did you go to Summer Heights High?
Not far off
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.
Ah, Latin class.
The most permanent solution is always a temporary solution
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.
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.
You know something’s afoot when those are signicantly better than the regular buildings.
Fun fact: you don’t need a DA for these*, so they are a hell of a lot cheaper to install. *Subject to jurisdiction
DA?
Dark Arts Professor — they are notoriously difficult to keep around
Development approval, required by a council before you build something
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.
laugh if it resonates
That’s what I mean with taking it seriously. You see it and its contents genuinely as the joke it displays.
In our group, it just became a meta-level-joke because we’ve seen it so often by spam bots and the joke was to re-post it as the newest most original joke one has ever thought of (but without it mattering what’s actually on the image); and that was funny.
But reposts trigger me beyond belief! I feel bad downloading them even though we’re on a completely different platform. I can’t control my emotions though so I just had to justify my feelings to everyone otherwise I’d feel bad.
Geez, what are you talking about? I just wanted to share a fun story I remembered when seeing this image.
It just felt a bit sad and jaded like someone needed to get off internet for a bit but is still addicted lol.
It does give off serious REPOST vibes but… Longer lol.
That sucks man. Hopefully you’ll stop caring one day.
Thank you for well wishes. I’m tormented by reposts nearly as bad as incels are tormented by PizzaCakeComics.
I’m online quite a bit, so really surprised I haven’t seen this one before
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
