The New White Flight

[Foxy Brown]

By most measures, Monta Vista High here and Lynbrook High, in nearby San Jose, are among the nation's top public high schools. Both boast stellar test scores, an array of advanced-placement classes and a track record of sending graduates from the affluent suburbs of Silicon Valley to prestigious colleges.

But locally, they're also known for something else: white flight. Over the past 10 years, the proportion of white students at Lynbrook has fallen by nearly half, to 25% of the student body. At Monta Vista, white students make up less than one-third of the population, down from 45% -- this in a town that's half white. Some white Cupertino parents are instead sending their children to private schools or moving them to other, whiter public schools. More commonly, young white families in Silicon Valley say they are avoiding Cupertino altogether.

Whites aren't quitting the schools because the schools are failing academically. Quite the contrary: Many white parents say they're leaving because the schools are too academically driven and too narrowly invested in subjects such as math and science at the expense of liberal arts and extracurriculars like sports and other personal interests.

The two schools, put another way that parents rarely articulate so bluntly, are too Asian.

[StreakInTheSky]

WTF is wrong with those white people(no offence to other white people)?

Though I encourage support for liberal arts and extracurriculars, isn't the whole point of school to learn? Do they like their kids to become ignorant and stupid?

Maybe instead of running away from the scary "asian school", they should figure out a way to make the school enjoyable to all who attend it. It seems to me they just want an easy ride out of high school. Well it sometimes seems to me that, american society wants to "conform to the stupid, and keep the smart at their level" sounds kinda communist to me.