I went to one school where they didn’t number the buses and they never pulled up in the same order. There were about twenty buses. God I hated that school.
When my kids were in elementary schools, there were “portable” buildings that were permanently attached to slab foundations & tied into water & sewer lines. Years later, they are still used as classrooms.
Having had my kids in schools with mobile classrooms, and having subbed in a few, I think I’m glad that when I was a kid & we Boomers were overwhelming the schools built in 1905 & 1917, they just shoved the 8th graders into the high school.
Portable classrooms, what a laugh. I had portable classrooms at Mt. Hood Community College while some buildings were still being built. Today it looks like a concrete jungle. Ugly as heck.
I think Petey may be exaggerating for effect, just a bit. Or maybe his frantic, frustrated search for his temporary classroom has driven him delusional….
I went through at the peak of the Baby Boom. Every school was scrambling to accommodate us — they “never saw us coming.” Even universities that should have been watching the wave coming for twelve years were taken by surprise. After we passed, school expansion “caught up” in time for the population dip in the seventies. Then they began to close schools just in time for the “second wave” arriving in the eighties…
Templo S.U.D. over 2 years ago
What an odd school.
Wilde Bill over 2 years ago
Petey’s imagination ebbs and flows with his rating on the pickiness index.
gbars70 over 2 years ago
Petey’s getting a real-time condensed education in sociology!
Chris over 2 years ago
did they think these kids were for sell or something?
MS72 over 2 years ago
An off-price mall? Where?
A.Ficionada over 2 years ago
We never had subculture groups hanging out on the schoolyard when I was in school :/
Iseau over 2 years ago
The principal is lost in the parking lot along with some old folks with walkers.
jamescordeiro over 2 years ago
I went to one school where they didn’t number the buses and they never pulled up in the same order. There were about twenty buses. God I hated that school.
gigi20 over 2 years ago
When my kids were in elementary schools, there were “portable” buildings that were permanently attached to slab foundations & tied into water & sewer lines. Years later, they are still used as classrooms.
WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago
Sounds like security at that school is non-existent…
kartis over 2 years ago
This is not just a Cul de Sac; this is an existential cul de sac.
Cozmik Cowboy over 2 years ago
Having had my kids in schools with mobile classrooms, and having subbed in a few, I think I’m glad that when I was a kid & we Boomers were overwhelming the schools built in 1905 & 1917, they just shoved the 8th graders into the high school.
donwestonmysteries over 2 years ago
Portable classrooms, what a laugh. I had portable classrooms at Mt. Hood Community College while some buildings were still being built. Today it looks like a concrete jungle. Ugly as heck.
6turtle9 over 2 years ago
Even through your bewilderment, you paint a good picture Petey.
I’m trying to imagine what a hobo jungle looks like. Have they dared to camp near the monstrous tube slide? I wish Richard had drawn that.
Sisyphos over 2 years ago
I think Petey may be exaggerating for effect, just a bit. Or maybe his frantic, frustrated search for his temporary classroom has driven him delusional….
JP Steve Premium Member over 2 years ago
I went through at the peak of the Baby Boom. Every school was scrambling to accommodate us — they “never saw us coming.” Even universities that should have been watching the wave coming for twelve years were taken by surprise. After we passed, school expansion “caught up” in time for the population dip in the seventies. Then they began to close schools just in time for the “second wave” arriving in the eighties…