Nevertheless in one site where the school straddled a demographic divide between an affluent, established neighborhood and a low-income neighborhood with more immigrant families, the universal TFD programs drew equally from both sides of the divide, attesting to the popularity of the universal approach.
I also thought it was cool that the school straddled railroad tracks where depressed students routinely rested their heads just before the Media Local commuter train rattled around the bend, always on schedule with death.
Shaw, whose family is from South Boston but who was raised in the suburb of Brookline and attended a prestigious private school, has straddled social realms; the Greater Boston of "SMILF" is neither the élite liberal enclave that some people fear it is nor the Irish-Catholic gangland of Hollywood's imagination, but a city full of quiet tensions.
But as a parent whose children attend schools in an inner-city school district that straddles the line between the haves and have-nots, I'd add that parental involvement matters a great deal.
Some live at home; others drive back on weekends to eat their mothers' food, do loads of laundry and go to high school basketball games, still straddling the blurred border between childhood and adulthood.
It's time to put the spotlight on Generation Z, a demographic who straddle high school to university.
All this from an Irish-American who, as a kid, got to his high school in the morning by straddling the rear of the crosstown bus, spread-eagled, because he had not the change to pay his fare.
Its largest private universities include Boston University (the city's fourth-largest employer) with its main campus along Commonwealth Avenue and a medical campus in the South End; Northeastern University in the Fenway area; Suffolk University near Beacon Hill, which includes law school and business school; and Boston College, which straddles the Boston (Brighton)–Newton border.
My children attend a school and play soccer on fields that straddle it.
But that could be disastrous - school nurses are the only health professionals who straddle health and education".
