I had some that looked exactly like this

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My middle school had an entire wing built from these things. There was even an enclosed hallway with a carpeted plywood floor, and doors directly into the dozens of “temporary” rooms.

  I didn’t realize it was such a trend. Somebody must have really been pushing those things for school districts that weren’t rich enough to just throw up a building.

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• mmagod@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ahh yes the “portables”

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  • set_secret@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    in aus they were called demountables. but i never saw a single one demounted. the ones at my old primary school are still there 30 years later.

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What you point out makes sense, but I can’t stop thinking of a classroom that’s being moved as students are taking class in it 🤣 would be fun when I was a student, also it’s pretty dangerous (but still fun)

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• LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was taught grade 4 in one of those

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  • Entropywins@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those are rookie numbers...I did grade 4 twice in one of those

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  • RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They had these in Canada too?

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• FarFarAway@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait yalls had that many windows? These look nice. Ours looked like someone gutted a corrugated metal double wide and put a divider wall in the middle to make 2 “classrooms.” There was 1 larger window on the backside, and 1 door in the front of each room.

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• model_tar_gz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nothing more permanent than a temporary government installation.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quick Look at my former HS and middle school still shows the temp buildings exactly where they were when I was there. Looks like new roofing on them though. So 35 + years? And they were there for years before I attended.

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• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know something’s afoot when those are signicantly better than the regular buildings.

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup. Cooked in the summer, froze in the winter, leaked in the rain, they stuck half of my freshman classes out in those fuckers in tornado country.

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• tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My kid goes to a very good school in a nice neighborhood. They just added several of those trailers last year.

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  • cazsiel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Idk why we don’t just build 2 story schools but I’m not an architect

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    • TheBSGamer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lot of laws (in the States at least) require the capacity to be only what the current student enrollment numbers are at, or at what the enrollment numbers are projected to be when the building is built. This is why you almost always see brand new schools completely full within a few years of being built if they have any sort of normal growth AND why these types of mobile buildings get built. They just don’t have any room whatsoever for the student growth. Some schools have started opting for “modular” buildings after the fact to get around this. They’re basically permanent buildings but the building is designed so that it can accommodate just about any size room, whether it’s offices, classrooms, small gyms, etc… This allows for the building to be built and ready to go but also not require that it not be an “empty” room so they can kinda sorta have spare classrooms when needed.

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    • nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      money mostly. It’s cheaper to do this than it is to build a whole ass new permanent building.

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• Aurangutan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My 4th grade classroom looked exactly like this.

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• w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Y’all had windows in yours? Fancy!

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re still there.

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• Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We had temporary dorms that were built in the 80s lol

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• Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Needs more jpeg

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah it’s about the right amount for the nostalgia

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• Licensed_to_ill@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shout out to Southwestern College. My Community College in SoCal had these.

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• theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We had a couple trailers for lunch while they built the cafeteria.

  They did get it done while I was there though.

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re still up at my school I believe

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• Tarkcanis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Drove by the other day, they replaced them with more perminent, but still prefab buildings.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mine still has the og 90’s units and even installed more. and from google earth, the main complex appears to be rotting lol

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• almost1337@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My first high school had 27 of them.

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• SeabassDan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We called them bungalows, haven’t seen them in years.

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• Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty wealth district near us had a cubic shit load of these things.

  Looked like the entire school was a “temporary” popup carnival.

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• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I swear that’s a shot of my English class in the 9th grade.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, Latin class.

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• aidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I only ever saw this in LA

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  North Carolina a few years ago tried to put in a policy limiting the number of students per teacher to something like 28. It was pointed out that not only can they not possibly hire enough teachers statewide to meet that demand, the United States also can’t build enough of these trailers to meet the demand for classroom space that would require.

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen those anywhere around me - must be a US thing. I guess the whole temporary thing is more of a “we don’t have permission to build anything permanent and this can be dismantled if needed”, not necessarily “this will be here temporarily”.

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  • sjmarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I live in the Uk, and both my primary and secondary schools had buildings exactly like these.

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• GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This one is really nice. Ours weren’t ever that fancy.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aka: My 6th grade classroom.

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• jagungal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact: you don’t need a DA for these*, so they are a hell of a lot cheaper to install. *Subject to jurisdiction

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  • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DA?

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    • jagungal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Development approval, required by a council before you build something

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