When they removed an very old elementary school near me to build a new one... you’d be surprised at how many ES kids (and middle school/high school kids that had gone there)... were in tears. Even with the “new” building, many felt they “missed” the old one.
Older school buildings have a charm and a presence that new ones don’t even try to match. They look like factories, intentionally unendearing. Sure, there are tacked on cheerful-looking doodads here and there, but the basic structure and organization is ugly. Functional, but ugly. The left has long been at war with beauty in a classical sense. If they can’t destroy and replace it, they debauch it. Buildings, art, people. Same story across the board.
My son went to a private high school that was furnished with rejects from Haitian earthquake relief rejected furniture. When they moved to the planned nice new high school everyone was mad. He said he liked the trailers and crappy furnishings.
I suspect it was more because they had walk outside between the main building and trailers but who am I to say?