to raise Ed Milibands and Gabby Logans porta cabin education.Are they bragging or compliining?

[ScousyFogarty]

It must be that I am older than Gabby and Ed. Porta cabins did not feature in my schooling. Was it about cabins being brought in as extra classroom. I dont think you could have a porta cabin school I dont think Gabby and Ed would get on. Did you have a porta cabin education?

We had really shitty huts at secondary school. Sometimes it was colder inside one than outside. We had ice on the inside of the window, they leaked and smelled damp. We had to wear coats in winter.

I left school in 1996 and this was pretty standard in the memories of other friends of mine that went to other schools, poorly maintained temporary classrooms as the school couldn't afford anything permanent or maintenance.

We also had to share textbooks one between four.

That's under the last Tory Government and I'll never forget it.

Another one who had 'Terrapins' at school - we had Latin in one right the way up to GCSE, freezing cold in winter and then very hot in the Summer.

I remember Grange Hill and the 'Portakabin' thing - it was an entire plot line around how there was overcrowding in the classrooms due to the mobiles not turning up. Portakabin (who are notoriously protective over their trademark) complained to the BBC about their name being used and they announcer used to have to say at the end of the episode that it was not the actual Portakabin company that was being referred to.

My Education was primarily hut based. Both my primary and secondary school started off in proper brick buildings - one purpose built in the 50s, one an old house - both outgrew their original premises in the 60s and by the 70s-80s both had a weird sort of mothership-satellite formation where the mother ship was the brick building and the satellites were the provision of huts straggling round. It was fine.

With exceptions, it seems Porta Cabins reign supreme; whether bril or grotty
clean nosed or snotty. (Its almost poetry)

We had about 6 Portacabins at secondary school, and a Reema hut (sp?) in middle school. THe cabins had wobbly floors and were freezing. I left school in 1995, and the portacabins have now been replaced as my school has gone co-ed and extended. However, one of the schools we looked at for DS1 last year housed their reception class in portacabins, so they're still about.

PUMPKIN.....yes pumpin Porta Cs are about in great numbers....I went to school much earlier than some posters; and did not come across them.

I will tell you what , if I was not married, I could live happily in a porta cabin
if the authorities would let me.

It would have to be a posh porta cabin. Running water, but not through the roof....Somewhere to hiss and Nap...(non cockney rhyming slang) A pulling down bed for a pulled lady. Guest chair in case Gabby Logan popped round ;and we could discuss the ethics and morality of sport, snogging and
moving to California in old age. (Her not me)