I'm on here every single day.

I double dog dare you.

Edit: seriously though, considered or not I'm excited to see the sub head in a hopefully more positive direction.

The NH gop has been voting against it right along. I think they are under the influence of Nancy Reagan’s anti drug campaign.

Maggie Hassan has nothing to do with the fact that in 2023, the majority of NH citizens want recreational marijuana legalized. Also worth mentioning that Democrats and Democrat voters have been crucial in the legalization process in most legal recreational states.

IMO, preschool should involve lots of group activities and dramatic play to encourage creativity and build social skills. Every child is different though, and it’s OK for kids to explore their own interests too. On some days at preschool, my daughter would be “running an ice cream shop” with other kids during dramatic play. On other days, she’d spend time by herself completely focused on doing puzzles.

Good luck to you and your son (whether in preschool or kindergarten this year)!

My son's birthday is in the spring and he was one of the youngest boys in his class. I have a fall bday and thought my kid would be great shape having a spring birthday. (I hated being one of the youngest in my whole grade, so I wanted my kids to have spring birthdays.)

Many parents of kids with summer birthdays keep their kids out, especially boys. So he was so young compared to so many other boys. Academically, he was fine. In sports it was tricky because so many boys were at least 9 months older than him.

States like NY and RI have later cut offs and kids who move here from those states can be a year younger than their NH classmates.

Schools I've seen are very hesitant to let kids get past the cut off. They're concerned about academics but also the social emotional aspects of being younger now and in the years to come.

Not sure what town you are in, but Nashua allows petitioning for age exception.

“A parent/guardian may request early admission to kindergarten or first grade. There will be no exceptions for children with birthdates beyond October 31. If the conditions are met, the child will be assessed for social, enotional and academic readiness in the summer. Parents must contact Student Services in the Masse School Administration Building to request early admission packet before June 1 of the upcoming school year.”

https://www.nashua.edu/Page/717

I like trees, Community Events, Small Businesses, removing the occasional Masshole, have a balanced view, and welcome opposing ideas (without insults, threats, tom fuckery). That’s my CV for the job 🤞

Mostly harmless

That a Democrat vetoed legalization. What about that argument doesn't make sense to you? Democrats pretend to be pro legalization, but few of them actually vote that way.

The whole window tint issue inferiorates me - so it's a no for Sununu.

My husband gets the cream soda Dr. Pepper at the Common Man rest stop in Hooksett along 93. Maybe they have the strawberry one too?

Thanks for sharing! I am so worried about the year of boredom. In addition, I have been only like 60% happy with the director / primary teacher at his preschool. She recently told me that my son mostly plays by himself, “where he seems happiest” and otherwise gravitate towards the younger girls. Um…I’m not paying for my son to just be “happy”…I’m paying for him to learn social and academic and life skills. She can be unresponsive at times (admittedly I’m a bit more involved and worried than most parents) and I wish she had told me this earlier / did more to try to engage him with the older kids’ activities. I’m worried he will be so bored or even regress next year playing with three year olds.

Yeah, half the state is empty. Of course population density is low. But where people actually live in NH, it’s similar to most of MA.

You are SO welcome. I spent an hour on Google and could not find any table with kindergarten entrance dates by district. How frustrating! I hope we can figure this out!!!

Thank you! I certainly will! It’s truly not about the money…education is VERY important to our family. Our town’s elementary school is not great anyways, so we are open to moving if a different town has a later cut-off date. But I will absolutely try to push this. I believe I may have an argument in that his due-date was Sept 30th, and typically they assess early developmental milestones by due-date, not by birth date. I’m a social worker with a secret lawyer side. 😆

I'd apply, but I don't live in my mom's basement so that disqualifies me unfortunately.

My daughter missed by three weeks last year. I inquired about the cutoff date with the school district just out of curiosity and didn’t get any sense that it was negotiable. The extra year of daycare was expensive, and she was bored as hell (being the oldest kid in pre-school when all of your friends are going to kindergarten sucks). But, it wasn’t all bad. In the end, she was much more ready for kindergarten.

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They are suspending retail distribution due to lack of regulation.

hate him. hate him even more since he has so much to say about granite staters wanting to continue their education and get "expensive degrees". the in state tuition for NH residents is among the highest in the country..... he can get bent.

I wouldn’t…. Our country deserves much, much better..

Most of MA is rural as if people stacked on top of people are rural. 2010 census because that is what came up in google and that is as much effort as I care to put in on reddit: MA pop density: 839.4(3rd in US). NH pop density: 147(21st in US).

A very few parts of western MA is rural. You may have small towns all over the place in MA, but small town =/= rural. It is mostly all one big urban/suburban/bedroom commuting community shithole.

Got it, you're butthurt over the masshole moniker. Get over it as it isn't going away. Massholes have earned it and they continue to earn it day after day.

I’m trying to imagine saying this with a straight face while living in a world that includes Connecticut.

Massholes are massholes, but … shudder.

Because it's a 3-day cutoff ask them to give your child an assessment and see if he's ready for kindergarten. I would push this and push this why not? You don't want to pay for another year of daycare!

Happy you posted this because I’m in a similar position - my daughter is an early Oct 2018 baby too. I haven’t seen any schools in southern NH with cutoffs past Sept.