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• Tarponator Posts: 20,536 AG

  June 2018 #2

  I've never heard of a temporary school before, but virtually all of the schools I went to in Hillsborough County had temporary classrooms that I imagine were put in place for the same reason (growth). 
  
  What concern are you referring to?
  

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• mplspug Posts: 16,016 AG

  June 2018 #3

  I'm a balloon

  Just dropping grenades in OT

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• AC Man Posts: 7,457 Admiral

  June 2018 #4

  Tarponator said:

  I've never heard of a temporary school before, but virtually all of the schools I went to in Hillsborough County had temporary classrooms that I imagine were put in place for the same reason (growth). 
  
  What concern are you referring to?
  

  Lol nope this was far from portables that were added. Our middle school was never finished till I was in high school. We were bused to Ft. Lauderdale airport and spent our middle school years in wooden two story buildings from WW 2
  
  Then again the high school was not finished so we went double session at plantation because South Plantation was not finished till the middle of 10th grade. 
  
  Of course double session means you are in school the first half of the day or the second.

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• mustang190 Posts: 10,104 AG

  June 2018 edited June 2018 #5

  Oh the horrors!!!!!
  The elementary school I went to(1965-69) in Melrose Fl. Was built in 1931. No Air conditioning, big windows and ceiling fans.
  And teachers that made you pay attention!

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• AC Man Posts: 7,457 Admiral

  June 2018 #6

  mustang190 said:

  Oh the horrors!!!!!
  The elementary school I went to(1965-69) in Melrose Fl. Was built in 1931. No Air conditioning, big windows and ceiling fans.
  And teachers that made you pay attention!

  Yep, I never had A/C in school in Lauderdale till high school. 

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• Turner River Terror Posts: 12,274 AG

  June 2018 #7

  I was Far West Ft' Lauderdale.
  Davie , Horses and Orange Groves..Only M. Donalds with a Horse Hitching area.
  Only thing open past 10 pm was a Royal Castle.All the 3 Cops knew it...
  First Grad class from Cooper City High..We walked around scaffolding and Concrete trucks all day..
  

  Killin and Grillin :grin

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• AC Man Posts: 7,457 Admiral

  June 2018 #8

  I remember Davie well. Wasn't far from you in west Plantation. I tried my hand at horses back then. They kicked my ****, stuck to dirt bikes where I controlled the power, not the horse.lol
  
  

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• SC53 Posts: 675 Officer

  June 2018 #9

  Went to the airport barracks 1 year and then to Plantation High. 

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• Gardawg Posts: 17,515 AG

  June 2018 #10

  Two room schoolhouse.   Eight grades. 1st through 6th in one room. Six rows of desks. One grade per row.  Each class got one hour of instruction and spent the rest doing assignments.  7th and 8th grades were in the other room. 
  
  Two outhouses. One for the boys one for the girls.  Sears Roebuck catalog for toilet paper. 
  
  Hand pump on the well.  Which was a big improvement over the rope and bucket.
  
  Pot bellied stove for heat in the winter. That and a thick sweater.
  
  Air conditioning?  Didn't know it existed.
  
  And we carried out lunch. Usually some biscuits and jelly. Or cornbread and tomato.  
  
  
  

  I got all my country learning, milking and a churning
  Pickin' cotton, rasin' hell, and bailin' hay

  I've been to Georgia on a fast train honey
  I wudn't born no yestday
  Got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth grade education
  Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way

  
  

  "Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can be sometimes easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love." Fred Rogers  
  

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• Fish Haid Posts: 8,417 Admiral

  June 2018 #11

  Hey AC Man - I sent you a PM yesterday.  Just wanted to let you know in case this new forum doesn't notify you about incoming messages.

  

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• AC Man Posts: 7,457 Admiral

  June 2018 #12

  Fish Haid said:

  Hey AC Man - I sent you a PM yesterday.  Just wanted to let you know in case this new forum doesn't notify you about incoming messages.

  No I was not notified. Thanks, I'll check it out.

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• mustang190 Posts: 10,104 AG

  June 2018 #13

  Went thru grades 6-8 in Germany. The DOD school at Wiesbaden was a former SS barracks. Still had the rifle racks on the walls in the hallway. And the German eagle engraved in the stone work to each classroom entrance with the swatstika chiseled out.
   Not to mention the bomb shelter under the building. 

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• lakeman Posts: 823 Officer

  June 2018 #14

  I taught there in 1969, and met my wife there.  I taught wood shop.  I taught for Lauderhill Middle school.  We both move to the New Middle school, and decided to get married and I did not want to work with my wife or they would not let us, for got.  I then went to New River Middle School. I can tell you stories about that place, from kids jumping out of the second story windows to shutting down the run ways because of kids to name a few LOL

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• AC Man Posts: 7,457 Admiral

  June 2018 #15

  That's when I was there. Don't remember shop till I took it in the 9th grade at Plantation. Do you remember Mr. Hucka the math teacher. Lol
   He was a odd duck. 
  
  Had a few classes out under a shade tree due to no A/C, but remember getting to go home due to no heat.

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• lakeman Posts: 823 Officer

  June 2018 #16

  He must have been in the Plantation Middle School, I have lost so many names from that time.  Dang, brings back many memories of Ft Lauderdale, when it was "PARADISE"  One of my  favorite restaurants has just closed, Earnie's Conch Chowder House on South US one recent;y closed after 48 years.

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• SC53 Posts: 675 Officer

  June 2018 #17

  I was there in 7th grade, 1966.  Moved to the brand new Plantation High off Sunrise blvd after that. Middle school hadn’t been built yet. Neither had South. 
  Remember Earnie’s too. Good stuff 

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