Boston Latin Special Snowflakes melt in the rain

Or only "figuratively" proud? Whatever-- I'm proud of my education, too, but let's not pretend that getting into a top-level school or not confers any kind of superiority. I was just pointing out this person with their ten-pound ballbag and leather-bound books was being tedious.

To grant Bunker Hill grads the freedom to celebrate their accomplishments. The condescension is there whether you mean it, or realize it, or not.

Hmmm as a defense I'm not sure that "Don't like our parenting decisions? Tough!" is the best strategy since this is precisely the attitude Brett is complaining about. The notion that ones own personal desires and choices trump any other considerations. I'm reminded of the guy I saw once trying to push a double wide stroller down Hanover street at 9pm on a Saturday night. Okay, sure, you're the kind of guy who decides that you must buy the most disruptive and space hogging form of child transport available on the market. But one of the side effects of that choice is that you should realize that there's things you give up doing so. Like the right to push said transport down one of the most crowded streets in the city like a bulldozer. It's not the decision that's problematic but the lack consideration for others.

Do I think that this is mostly motivated by elitism as Brett seems to suggest? No. I suspect that this is mainly a problem at Boston Latin because more of the parents are able to take time off from work in order to pick up their kids. But I think there IS a point in the fact that a lot of the people involved simply didn't think that, "HMMM maybe there will be a lot of other parents trying to pick up their kids at the exact same time and that all of those cars might cause a traffic problem on the street."

I do find the horrified reactions to junior high kids riding the T to be more than mildly amusing and, in that case perhaps, indicative of a certain level of elitism. Oh yes the horrors, children riding the T where they might actually have to see and be in close proximity to, people who they don't know. Even people from, gasp, a different social background than them. In my day we had to walk uphill to school, both ways! Well not really, but I did take the bus. Albeit a school bus not a public bus. But as a junior high school kid we did stand out there on the public street waiting for the bus. Somehow we survived unscathed.

Frankly I'm also a little stunned by the lack of reading comprehension here. Perhaps some folks need to take a refresher course along with the "little snowflakes." At least from the OP it seems clear that Brett's problem is not with the children themselves but with what he sees as the over entitled and inconsiderate parents who feel that their "special little snowflakes" can't endure a little rain or a scary trip on public transportation. After all I doubt there's a lot of kids out there wailing and moaning for mom and dad to come pick them up because the rain is too much.

I also find it a bit amusing that people who were, in another blog post, giving Emily Rooney a, justifiable, raft of shit for acting like Dorchester is the dark side of the moon are now acting like the medical area is so ungodly far that only fleets of cars could possibly return the students home in a timely fashion.

And is the post perhaps a bit petty? Sure. But then most of the posts on this site are petty. At least Brett's is about something which actually impacts people's lives, albeit in a minor manner. As opposed to hand wringing about what the oldest house in Boston is or that Vermont advertising agencies don't know how the local public transit system works.

But the T is part of the experience of BLS, you're depriving them of 4-6 years of T torture Adam! Oh, and don't forget the anxiety inducing schedule of the E line, which runs approximately once every two days. How will your kids learn to make up excuses for being late if you're driving them in each day?