Let’s at least try to be consistent. It’s either believe victims, or don’t believe any accusations until there is evidence…but it can’t be both.

Trans kids? Kids have zero concept of sexuality. Wtf is wrong with you

How about you have stall dividers that actually go to the ground while you're at it? Public bathrooms are designed in a way that privacy would even be a concern in order to save money. The idea that people are looking at my pants around my ankles and can look through a crack to watch me shitting is crazy. If those weren't the stakes, then it doesn't matter who is in what bathroom.

"it allows me to more seriously consider his and his wife's allegations." Give me a break. I get what you are doing, establishing an air of "fairness" or some other kind of attempt at virtuous neutrality, but we've seen the bullshit that is being thrown around to try to cause issues like this nationally. It never contains a thread of legitimacy. Giving the benefit of the doubt to people like this is not virtuous and it's not even open-mindedness; it's a purposeful dismissal of basic facts in an attempt to present neutrality to those who aren't paying attention to the world around them. You really think it's possible that a trans kid is running around bullying cis kids in restrooms? And the only one that has complained about it happens to be the child of a well-known fear-monger on the issue? Isn't it more likely that these nutcases are, like always, willing to lie to try to make their ridiculous points?

A mostly unrelated story. I teach at a high school in nh. Either the fall before the pandemic or the year before that I heard a bunch of noise coming from the boys bathroom, and couldn’t figure out why anyone else was dealing with it.

So I walk in there wondering what the hell, and there’s a bunch of freshman and sophomore boys in there. Like 10-15. I’m pretty easy going and mostly just want things to not cause a scene.

I see a couple kids sitting in the sinks eating their lunch. And I let them know that whatever they think the sink can hold is probably less than they realize and it’s about to break. Then I realize there are 3-4 boys crowded down by the urinals - eating maybe a foot or so from them.

Then 3-4 kids come out of the stall (just one). Their reaction is it’s not what it looks like. I’m not sure what they think I was thinking - I’m sure they were vaping or something, but these boys were eating their lunches right by the toilet. Take a two urinal one stall two sink bathroom, and imagine 15 kids eating in there. And these were kids that were probably more on the giving rather than receiving end on the bullying.

Kids are weird as fuck

Between classes:

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lololol!

$1200 for less than 400 square feet is not affordable.

I see the kindness in it but $1200 a month for 364 Sq ft is hella expensive no matter who you are. That's the cost of my mortgage and escrow on a 1300 Sq ft house.

A person of the other restroom.

Yea, we don't tend to do that at the urinals.. so there's not really a privacy issue. Not sure why anyone here is thinking that's an actual thing.

That sprawl could be accelerated. Not proposing it as a solution, but the ability for someone to achieve the dream of home ownership in NH is only going to become more challenging over time so long as the population increases and the desirability of NH living doesn't decrease. Even sprawling out only works for so long.

Why yes, yes I do! 😂 I’m a woman

I've lived in Greenland, Dover, Barrington, Rochester and even Hampton for a short period. The problem is that the "sprawl into underdeveloped towns" is so sought after now, that any new housing developments are over-priced even before being constructed.

>I've lived in this state my entire life, and it utterly sucks that working class citizens are getting priced out of the area; we're either forced to live in cramped, overpriced apartments, or have at least 3 to 4 different incomes to help afford all of the expenses of owning your own home, and neither of those is conducive to what the "American Dream," is supposed to be.

I can see only two other options.. make the state undesirable so people leave or embrace sprawl into towns that are underbuilt.

Yeah, I realize there are a handful of homeless people that make use of the bridge to set up tents under. They've never really bothered me when we occasionally walk or stroll the baby, outside of some eye contact or talking to themselves. Buy I get it, being around people with mental health issues going untreated can be a heavy ask.

My thoughts exactly. I don't go that close to downtown on it because the encampments tend to be down there, but I use the north-west ends of it all the time.

I'm going to be honest, my wife is a big fan of the whole concept of tiny living, and even watches a whole bunch of the reality shows about people searching for tiny houses to move into, and she enjoys seeing how Nifty they look and how people get creative and versatile with the amount of space that they have...

But the honest truth is, I'm not a big fan of this idea that the only way to find affordable housing is for us Working Class People to start looking for smaller and smaller living spaces to squeeze ourselves in our families into. They can try to glamorize it and glorify it however they want, and make all of the reality TV shows about it that they want, but every time I see these people buying houses that are 300 Square ft to 900 square feet in Total Living size, the only thing that I'm reminded of is the depictions of "slave quarters" that I used to see in history textbooks back when I was in school.

This is basically what they're doing to us now. And a lot of us are too blind to actually seem to notice it. They try to make it seem fun, and quirky, and exciting and adventurous to squeeze a family of four or five people into a 300 square foot living space, while all the decent sized, three and four bedroom houses in New Hampshire's current housing market are horribly overpriced compared to basically every other state housing market in the country.

If you look down in pennsylvania, you can find a four or five bedroom house going for 85,000 to $100,000 in the housing market, compared to New Hampshire where a two bedroom or three bedroom home will run you anywhere from $250,000 to $400,000. In New Hampshire today, the only way that you can own your own home is to either buy something that's under a thousand square feet, or to have a median income of over $80,000 to $90,000 a year.

I've lived in this state my entire life, and it utterly sucks that working class citizens are getting priced out of the area; we're either forced to live in cramped, overpriced apartments, or have at least 3 to 4 different incomes to help afford all of the expenses of owning your own home, and neither of those is conducive to what the "American Dream," is supposed to be.

The community trail is widely used and a nice natural spot. Some development could go there I guess, but it's not "wasted space."

>This would allow people currently living in the city to stay in the city that they enjoy

Although many might appreciate a sharp rise in the value of their home due to scarcity.

If you're not building the super large buildings, the tax rate may need to go up to build or expand the schools, fire depts, police, etc.

One of the biggest issues in the greater Boston area is the close proximity of single family suburbs to the downtown area…however, the difference between metro Boston and the seacoast is about 3 million people. Their crisis is rooted in centuries of slow development from single, to double, to triple family homes.

Vertical building on the seacoast likely would consist of 3-4 story townhomes or apartment complexes, rather than 15-20 story highrises. Dover and Portsmouth aren’t high rise cities surrounded by well established suburbs, it’s basically suburbs surrounded by undeveloped land. The seacoast runs the risk of establishing spread out suburbs doing stuff like OP posted.

Rather than pigeonholing itself into slow development, the seacoast area could be relatively innovative and prioritize townhomes, triplexes, and apartment buildings, rather than standalone single family homes. This would allow people currently living in the city to stay in the city that they enjoy

Appreciate the explanation. Wild times we are living in for sure.

From what I understand, it was initially kicked off because one of the parents found out that there was a transgirl who was using the girls room. I don't know how many other trans kids go to this school. I do know that there is at least one transboy going there as well though.

To be perfectly clear, there have been no accusations or claims of impropriety (other than using the "wrong" restroom) from anyone which started this.

I'm not at all being a poop stirrer. This is a serious question. If boys that identified as girls could use the girls' room, none of this would be happening? Or girls who identified as boys could use the boys' restroom? I honestly haven't paid enough attention to what has caused this issue. I'm just trying to understand what led to this. Not sarcastic or trying to offend.

Yeah Wheeler had a long history of stuff like this.

It really just seems like an effort to sow chaos, and it isn't lost on me that the parent emailed Wheeler only, rather than the whole Board. (That's my understanding of the situation, from the limited details we have in the news reports that I've come across.)