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by /u/Early-Cucumber-2280 | 113 comments | 2026-06-17T01:23:29+00:00 Central
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| /u/NakiCam My school burned down, so the entire school ended up as these. Eventually, many years later the school shut down to be combined with thw high school. They moved all the prefabs to the new location to use "temporarily". |
| /u/DeismAccountant So your whole school building became K-12? |
| /u/SneakyLeif1020 That's how mine was! It was nice going into high school knowing everyone |
| /u/doomus_rlc Some places are just that small. I believe the school my cousins went to in Maine is like that now. Each graduating class is maybe 30 kids. |
| /u/Waker_ofthe_Wind What's crazy is in some places you have highschools with 500 kids in a graduating class less than 30 mins away from a school's with 20 kids. Every state does it differently, but some just dont make sense |
| /u/Fit-Presentation-778 One time this dude we called Paznelli(?) farted in 1 of the rooms, and we smelled it through the walls. The people in our room were kind of like "wtf ewww haha", but the people in Paznelli's room were screaming and running out of the building. |
| /u/Neijx One time in middle school, this kid farted and it was * wretched stinky. It filled the room and made everyone gag horribly - a couple kids ran out the hall to throw up. The teacher had everyone file out of the room and onto front yard of the school. The kid responsible said something along the lines of "sorry, we had some freeze dried onions as part of our dinner and it's making my stomach hurt." |
| /u/Fit-Presentation-778 Hahaha!!! That kid probably still lives with that embarrassment. |
| /u/Fit-Presentation-778 Kind of, yeah lol. It happened in the 90s and my friends still talk about it whenever we smell a bad fart. |
| /u/CarrieDurst Supposedly Will Smith has farts that are that bad |
| /u/sharefind The kind of factoid I'll never forget. |
| /u/CarrieDurst For anyone who doesn't know https://variety.com/2024/film/news/will-smith-farted-men -in-black-set-evacuated-three-hours-1236166286/ |
| /u/Blue_Storm11 dont these still exist |
| /u/GBi10ba The school down the street from me has a bunch of these. |
| /u/Onlyforthefreaks Aaah yes, I remember when S and I had fun behind one during lunch |
| /u/empty40oz Supply and Installation? Username really does check out. |
| /u/CitizenHuman Lisa S. Possibly L. Simpson. |
| /u/you4president I think they mean the substitute teacher and I got freaky |
| /u/conjunctivious Or maybe just the very concept of the letter S |
| /u/IrrelevantAfIm Come on - seriously - why is no one getting this reference - unless I'm wrong. I think she wore her dresses tight... |
| /u/LuckyZygote I did that with a substitute teacher a few times over the years |
| /u/ghostspectre1518 20-30 years later the ones at the local school are still up |
| /u/phluper Yes and next time a conservative tries to tell you how they want to go back to the 1950s, please remind them how the government taxed the rich at 90% to pay for public schools across the whole entire country as well as interstates |
| /u/-00-- These are built to support a temporary spike in school attendance. The spike can last many years but eventually neighborhoods stabilize. Or even decline. The kids move out but thier parents continue to live in the neighborhood. Which reduces demand on the school. In fact, demographics force some schools to close within a decade or two of the spike. Another the NG you may notice is kids at Halloween. We used to trick or treat, with my kids, in a neighborhood that was popping. By the time my middle kids started hitting high school Halloween in that neighborhood became a ghost town. Then they tore down the temporary classrooms. Sauce: architect who used to do lots of public school work and a father who's been around lon enough for neighborhoods to change. |
| /u/SleepApprehensive585 The ones I used in 1986 are the same ones my kid is using today. |
| /u/ModernCGIFloatinHead We all know what aspects of the 50s really appeal to them |
| /u/snapplesauce1 The training campus I work at has dozens of these that I'm pretty sure are permanent at this point. They're so fancy inside now. Even bothered to landscape around them. |
| /u/Fickle-Visit5223 We never called these "temporary* buildings at my schools growing up (every school I attended had multiple of these). We called them "annex" buildings or "out" buildings. Edit: and even when my high school was expanded with a new wing, these remained in use. |
| /u/FedderDelRey We called the "portables" in the Midwest. |
| /u/Ryan-Updog We called the same here in Florida |
| /u/Puzzleheaded-Law-429 Called then "portables" in Oklahoma as well. They were even numbered with a P. P1, P2, etc. |
| /u/PlutoJones42 Entire schools made of these things |
| /u/AlgunasPalabras1707 The one I went to kindergarten in sure does |
| /u/bushie5 I've never seen a school without them in my 40+ years on this earth. |
| /u/Electricdragongaming Some of them do, especially older school buildings that just hasn't had the budget to actually expand their buildings. Although in my neck of the woods these portable buildings have been slowly (but surely) phased out. Either they finally renovate the school building and part of the renovation is just building on more school unto the preexisting building, or in the case of the middle school down the street from me, they just bulldoze the entire school the build a new one from scratch on the same plot of land. In the case of the bulldozed school near me, it looks like they tore it down to build a two story school where a single story school previously existed. |
| /u/Ooficus Good ole "portables" thank fuck I never had a class in one somehow. |
| /u/PurpleSalt11 You missed out. Portables had the best AC. Main building classrooms were musty. |
| /u/Thin_Bother8217 It was really dependent on which one you got. My old high school had some of the newer ones that you'd see at a construction job site. New, clean, insulated. Then we had the other ones that were essentially throw up shacks that had been there for at least 30-40 years. Broken windows, crap construction and no insulation. Morning classes in a foggy area were not fun at all |
| /u/ioxzy yep, freezing cold in the morning, burning hot by mid day. They SUCK, no airflow because all the windows dont work and the AC doesng help. |
| /u/SeaToTheBass The portables I were in had no AC, no windows and a door at either end. |
| /u/Zerodyne_Sin Based on your profile pic, I'm assuming you suffered in the same portables which needed to have no windows by virtue of the country being fricking cold for most of the school year. Although I would say the ones I were in had only one door. That seems like a fire code violation of sorts... |
| /u/Sareya84 Yes! Until the civics teacher turned on Das Boot, turned the heat up, and put weird incense in the vents so all us students could really live the experience of being in a hot, smelly, uncomfortable room of doom with no windows. |
| /u/ekib Ours were a luxury because the main building didn't have a/c but these did |
| /u/Ooficus Am Floridian, as far as I'm aware the portables sucked mainly because humidity could easily get in compared to the cinderblock buildings with central AC. Plus with it baking under the sun as portables were never placed by trees. |
| /u/JMS1991 And there was no cover on the sidewalk to them, so if it was raining, you had to walk through the rain to get literally anywhere else in the school. |
| /u/Blue_Nipple_Hair Why is everyone saying they had AC in these things? We had a fan in the window and we were lucky we got to leave at the end of the period. I don't know how the teachers survived. I can still smell those things. |
| /u/SeaToTheBass We didn't even have windows in ours |
| /u/Blue_Nipple_Hair We had class in the dungeon and we liked it EDIT: Now that I think about it, we definitely didn't have windows in ours either. Those things got crazy dark with the lights off. I do remember the box fan, though. |
| /u/psychogamer101 Yup "portables". And ours looked like actual sheds dropped down lol |
| /u/kratz9 Ours were literal mobile home trailers. |
| /u/bbbttthhh I guarantee I could still find my way around the portable labyrinth that was my high school and I've been out for around 10 years now Side note: I thought I was over exaggerating with the 10 years part, no it's actually been 10 years fuck me |
| /u/DrahKir67 In New Zealand we call them "Pre-fabs" as in pre-fabricated. In Australia, they're called "Demountables". I guess the Aussie name is ok but they are never demounted. |
| /u/AyRoPro678 Came here to say, "the portables that never moved" 😂 |
| /u/Im_100percent_human I took Calc II in one of these at a community college in 1994. I just checked the satellite image on google maps, and the temporary building is, after 32 years, still there. |
| /u/Relevant_Grass9586 Shit, I went to college in a few of these in Montana |
| /u/Designer-Fix-2861 They don't have colleges in Montana, don't lie. |
| /u/Cornelius_M I'm sure they still charged college pricing, would I be mistaken? |
| /u/Relevant_Grass9586 They did charge college prices but luckily the government footed the bill |
| /u/Jld368 There's a meme about this that I saved because it's so true. Can't post pictures but the caption is "In the 80's and 90's they didn't even build a new school. They just hauled these in and said go learn something, trailer park children" |
| /u/popcornfart Was talking to some old-timers recently, turns out they had them in the 60s too. |
| /u/cashchops This is where they sent the special-ed kids at my school so they'd be out of sight |
| /u/ThonThaddeo ...hey wait a second |
| /u/Whynotdriveatank I was there with you, bud. It's ok. Solidarity |
| /u/HBTFD1785 My middle school's principal, Dr. Tinkler, got caught banging a staff member in one. |
| /u/MonkeysInShortPants Imagine being a MS principal with the last name Tjnkler lol. Poor guy/gal. |
| /u/JMS1991 Hey, I had a class in one of these, and I wasn't....wait....shit. |
| /u/mercurygreen Just went to Google maps to look at the elementary school from my childhood in the '70s. They've added more of them. |
| /u/Spear-Spears-Speares Everyone? Last I checked they're still there. |
| /u/WhirligigOfLife Ours were called "learning cottages" haha but we called them portables |
| /u/HistoricalChef1963 Never heard them called anything other than portables. Southern Ontario. |
| /u/Coroebus California checking in - only ever heard portables, and they were used for all types of classes |
| /u/etherealtwo California here. We called them bungalows. |
| /u/Cunhabear We called them bungalows and they were just assumed to be permanent classrooms. |
| /u/Thirty_Helens_Agree When I was in grad school in the late 90s, the campus still had a few of the post-WWII Quonset huts that were called T-buildings - T for "temporary." My dad got a good laugh when he saw them because he thought they were ancient when he was a student at the same school in the 60s. |
| /u/nitr0turb0 And then the week after you graduate, it's replaced by a whole new building complete with a lobby lit by the sun shining through multilayered windows, the floor gets new concrete art, and next to the building is a track field with brand new bright green grass. |
| /u/SafariNZ The ones at my school lasted ~40 years before the whole school got taken out by an earthquake. |
| /u/Darth-Taytor My high school was the most overcrowded school in the country the first few years I was there. We had so many trailers. At least 30. |
| /u/Jwbst32 I live in a blue state that actually funds schools so it's need to me |
| /u/Sheerluck42 They're all over in Los Angeles. And that's the biggest blue state. Funding has nothing to with these buildings. It's overcrowding that does. It's hard to add stories to a high school building. It's easy to put these up in a yard or the parking lot, |
| /u/JMS1991 Yeah, not as much to do with red vs. blue as it is population growth. Build a school, 10 years later, they have way more students than they had projected, but they don't want to replace a basically brand-new school, so this is the easy solution to gain some extra space quickly. |
| /u/torreneastoria Oh you mean the ovens? |
| /u/Lazy_Jellyfish7676 I remember them being hot too. But other people say they were cold. Who knows i probably have cte from 10 years of football. |
| /u/1heart1totaleclipse I had math intervention in one and it was the best thing because it was the only classroom in the whole school that had AC. |
| /u/Pitiful_Palpitation9 We called them portables. |
| /u/mokancraig The Tulsa Public School District had old wooden barracks leftover from the second world war. I spent 1st grade in them back in the mid 80s. They had a particular smell that I remember to this day. |
| /u/NowDigThis1973 The "portables" - it was an entire area of our school. Superior air conditioning compared to the old original building, which may not have even had it. |
| /u/Icelandia2112 The ceiling bubble, full of rancid water waiting for a kid to throw a sharp pencil up there and cause havoc. |
| /u/No-Top-4139 Nothing more permanent than a temporary fix |
| /u/devilsbard My high school was mostly these. I think we were the highest student population in the state at the time. My graduating class was like 1,300 people |
| /u/thinkB4WeSpeak All the money for school probably went to fund the police so they could have armored vehicles |
| /u/RTalons I did an installation at a research lab in one of these. It was set up in a parking lot and had clearly been there for decades. The funny part was that was intentional. With the stuff they were working with, if there was a breach, they wanted the option of literally burning the whole thing to the ground. |
| /u/Ok_Instance152 Those were supposed to be temporary? |
| /u/frausting My high school had over 100 "portables" as they were called |
| /u/Broken-Elevator We called them "portables" in elementary school and I was always jealous of the kids who had class in them. |
| /u/Positive-Honeydew140 The one I teach in is my age |
| /u/InternationalWind886 Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution |
| /u/Daniel_Spidey My siblings and I found a bunch of unused bullets under those, we used a baseball bat to smash those to make them pop. murica |
| /u/Skarferior I had to go to one of these because the original school building had to be demolished. We were placed right next to the original building. Spent 1 year in each before moving on to high school. Over ten years laters, they're still using the portables for middle school while the old building has now become a gated empty lot of land. |
| /u/Decent-Box5009 There are still up at my elementary school and they've had babies. They were put up when I was five. I'm 47 now. |
| /u/PositiveStress8888 I can still smell the mold |
| /u/Commander-OOF I spent years in these lmao. When I left, I heard there were some renovations that was gonna occur. I thought they were gonna expand the school to include more students, thus eliminating these temporary things. Lo and behold they just built more of them. |
| /u/RJC12 Wait, these were supposed to be temporary??? Half my classes in high school were in these |
| /u/DjNormal Remembers? They're still up. I'm 47 now and my 4 year old is at the same school I went to. The portable I spent 1989/90 in is still there, and still being used. |
| /u/The_Dark_Vampire There were some at the College in the mid 90s I went to I remember a teacher telling us they were only temporary then I heard another teacher behind me quietly say "They told me that when I went here 20 years ago" |
| /u/bbyxmadi never saw these a day in my life personally |
| /u/Malcolm2theRescue We had three rows of them at my high school. All of my Math classes were in them. We had hot summers and the A/C in the temporaries was actually better than the main buildings. |
| /u/ImBurningStar_IV Bro why was it always the math teachers that got relegated to these lol |
| /u/patty7775 My old highschool recently took down their demountables to make actual buildings |
| /u/khrunchi They are still there lol |
| /u/TheShamShield Were they ever meant to be temporary? |
| /u/CompetitivePhone2005 They moved some WWII army barracks buildings to the university of Minnesota right after the war. The university used them as offices for teaching assistants. They had plopped them right on the lawn outside of some university buildings. One was in back of Appleby Hall. It was named temporary north of Appleby. They finally tore the last ones down I think just after the turn of the century. |
| /u/xdamoc Americans love to label other countries as "3rd world shitholes" to make themselves feel better and also because they are just inherently racists, meanwhile they got their education in trailers like the white trash that they are |
| /u/Presently_Naked No AC or Heating and to use the washrooms you had to walk back to the main building via outdoors |