Better than the usual of what they do, which is to pretend there are no toxic chemicals and stuff a bunch of kids in there anyway
School: Eh, toxic paint, sure why not Shitty chain store in a mall: DONT FUCK THIS UP :agony-turbo: :amerikkka:
There are so many abandoned malls in the US that could easily be reclaimed and put to socially useful ends.
Looks like a better school than my high school that was built in 1905...
Search for suburban retrofit. There are tons of successful examples.
Got my vaccine at an abandoned Lord & Taylor's anchor store in a giant mall, and let me tell you, abandoned mall vibes hit different when you're surrounded by masked National Guardsmen and vials upon vials of vaccines. Compared to that, this seems like a pleasant abandoned mall experience. Plus, riding escalators at school sounds awesome.
Plus, riding escalators at school sounds awesome.
I think my university had escalators, but i'm not sure if that's a real memory of mine or something made up.
My only thought is that this must be a middle class suburban school, because if it was an inner city public school they would have just sent the kids there anyways and then buried the report.
Uh, its better than the portable trailers that made up half the classrooms at my unfinished elementary school. Trailers in Florida heat = no bueno.
That mold smell they always had and a non working window unit.
The sound of a herd of flip flops on those aluminum ramps up to the portables is permanently seared into my memory
If the most dystopian thing you've ever seen is repurposing a mall for a school you really need to get out more. That's not dystopian, it's resourceful.
dude im trying so hard not to tear into this lady but i feel like shes really telling on herself with this post.
Yeah I hear you. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt and assuming she just couldn't think of a better way to describe the situation. It's definitely weird seeing a giant Levis ad in a classroom, and it's unfortunate that the original school building was found to be dangerous to kids. Just the whole 'dystopian' thing really doesn't fit for me haha.
I mean, most dystopian fiction is YA and in the 90s that was all anti consumerism, anti mall culture. She probably means "literally like a dystopian novel"
It might be breaking the whole liberal illusion of schools existing as isolated, ucorrupted places for knowledge outside of the whole horror of bullshit American culture, which is harder to claim when math class is in the room that used to be a Spencer's gifts.
That's a good point. It's harder for me to view schools as something so pure since I'm jaded af.
the abandoned mall looks like a more pleasant place to learn than most schools ive seen
The portability and cost efficiency of contemporary interior design creates homogenous spaces. It's just a school with escalators and ads imo
I went to the newer one in my upper class area to take the ACT. It had a "nice" rectangle but with a big open space in the middle of the floors, just like a mall, really tacky
this is better actually
every school i was ever in was dismal and shitty and cramped and definitely only built for maybe 30% of the students they're trying to cram into there. christ, my high school had the floors duct-taped together, let alone the rest of the structure, was very obviously 2 100+ year old buildings connected by a single hallway with no windows and was very obviously a fire hazard, and got bulldozed a month after i graduated because it was horribly unsafe. my elementary school got shut down for 2 weeks straight because there was mold growing in the vents.
meanwhile, every mall i've ever been in has been not that, usually very obviously built for 1000+ people despite only holding a fraction of that and actually follows building codes
that and malls fuckin suck and are gonna be dead within 20 years anyway, recycling the building to give it a use that's actually useful instead of "27 clothing stores, all selling literally identical items" seems good as hell
it's good, all the kids are into vaporwave now. it's aestheducation.
My highschool had asbestos classrooms. When they we "fixing" them we had class in portable shipping container classrooms with no insulation or cooling. A student fainted in one of them. But yeah those mall classrooms look super dystopian with all the ads and elevators.
Yeah, I was going to mention my high school was partially built into shipping containers and old train cabins that were supposed to be temporary. Also my middle school became a hotel.
Take down the #brands and I'd have no problem with this. Looks like it would be a cool place to go to school.
Look a couple of kids are gonna go through the meat grinder. It's the risk we all take for our liberation from stairs.
Remember those dark times? Carrying yourself up flights of stairs all day? Do you really want to go back to that?
Yes, the escalator, from time to time, demands a sacrifice, but who are we to get in the way of progress?
i mean if no one's there to maintain them and make sure they're safe, that's probably a good thing
