SUMMARY - Portable Classroom
The portable classroom sits in the schoolyardâa temporary structure that arrived years ago and never left. Inside, a teacher manages climate that fluctuates between too hot and too cold, sound that bleeds through thin walls, and space that constrains activities possible in the main building. The students know their classroom is different. Some schools have dozens of portables; others have none. The portable has become a symbol of educational infrastructureânecessary, inadequate, and stubbornly persistent.