advisory: no shiny objects next 10 miles [amy]
Bridget sent this link to me:
The New White Flight
It's kind of long (or maybe I just have lots of shiny things near my desk), but the gist of it is that there's a decline in the numbers of white students at Cupertino high schools. Some parents who have moved their kids to other (whiter) schools claim that the atmosphere in Cupertino is too competitive, with an over emphasis on math and science. And in parenthesis, because there are too many Asians. As much as I hate to admit it, it might actually be true. However, I thought this was a decent point:
"Top schools in nearby, whiter Palo Alto, which also have very high test scores, also feature heavy course loads, long hours of homework and overly stressed students, says Denise Pope, director of Stressed Out Students, a Stanford University program that has worked with schools in both Palo Alto and Cupertino. But whites don't seem to be avoiding those institutions, or making the same negative generalizations, Asian families note, suggesting that it's not academic competition that makes white parents uncomfortable but academic competition with Asian-Americans."
One things about this article that's almost kind of funny is that it seems to focus on Asian-white ratios as a measure of diversity. The only mention the WSJ makes to Hispanics or African-Americans is one line describing a math class made of whites, Asians, and "other racial and ethnic groups." The situation seems to be described in terms of Oh No, there's Too Many Asians Beacuse All the White Kids Are Leaving. I dunno, it just gets kind of ridiculous. If you're taking your kid out of a school in Cupertino because of a lack of diversity (which might be valid), then there's probably a lot of other things you need to be talking about if it's diversity that concerns you.
And maybe I'm taking this out of context, but this woman sounds kind of unpleasant:
"It does help to have a lower Asian population," says Homestead PTA President Mary Anne Norling. "I don't think our parents are as uptight as if my kids went to Monta Vista."
So I guess it's "helpful" to have fewer yellow kids?
Sorry, I didn't mean for this to turn into a rant. Having lived in the Bay Area my entire life (and mostly in Union City), I've never experienced being the minority before. Maybe I'd be freaking out too if my kid was in an all white/black/hispanic/south-pacific-alaskan-native-islander school? Actually, I wouldn't want my kid in an all Asian school either. (Though Logan is pretty close to that.)
Um, Tiny Plaid Ninjas
(yeah, as you may have guessed, the majority of the amusement is in the title)
The New White Flight
It's kind of long (or maybe I just have lots of shiny things near my desk), but the gist of it is that there's a decline in the numbers of white students at Cupertino high schools. Some parents who have moved their kids to other (whiter) schools claim that the atmosphere in Cupertino is too competitive, with an over emphasis on math and science. And in parenthesis, because there are too many Asians. As much as I hate to admit it, it might actually be true. However, I thought this was a decent point:
"Top schools in nearby, whiter Palo Alto, which also have very high test scores, also feature heavy course loads, long hours of homework and overly stressed students, says Denise Pope, director of Stressed Out Students, a Stanford University program that has worked with schools in both Palo Alto and Cupertino. But whites don't seem to be avoiding those institutions, or making the same negative generalizations, Asian families note, suggesting that it's not academic competition that makes white parents uncomfortable but academic competition with Asian-Americans."
One things about this article that's almost kind of funny is that it seems to focus on Asian-white ratios as a measure of diversity. The only mention the WSJ makes to Hispanics or African-Americans is one line describing a math class made of whites, Asians, and "other racial and ethnic groups." The situation seems to be described in terms of Oh No, there's Too Many Asians Beacuse All the White Kids Are Leaving. I dunno, it just gets kind of ridiculous. If you're taking your kid out of a school in Cupertino because of a lack of diversity (which might be valid), then there's probably a lot of other things you need to be talking about if it's diversity that concerns you.
And maybe I'm taking this out of context, but this woman sounds kind of unpleasant:
"It does help to have a lower Asian population," says Homestead PTA President Mary Anne Norling. "I don't think our parents are as uptight as if my kids went to Monta Vista."
So I guess it's "helpful" to have fewer yellow kids?
Sorry, I didn't mean for this to turn into a rant. Having lived in the Bay Area my entire life (and mostly in Union City), I've never experienced being the minority before. Maybe I'd be freaking out too if my kid was in an all white/black/hispanic/south-pacific-alaskan-native-islander school? Actually, I wouldn't want my kid in an all Asian school either. (Though Logan is pretty close to that.)
Um, Tiny Plaid Ninjas
(yeah, as you may have guessed, the majority of the amusement is in the title)
2 Comments:
wow those poor white kids... there's no way they could perform well at manzanar highschool. asians just don't play fair! they're just so.. so damn good at math!
i really liked this part-
"When Matthew, now a student at Notre Dame, finished middle school eight years ago, Ms. Doherty decided to send him to Bellarmine College Preparatory, a Jesuit school that she says has a culture that "values the whole child." It's also 55% white and 24% Asian. Her younger son, Kevin, followed suit."
Bellarmine prep was probably the biggest single highschool feeder into Santa Clara, and lemme tell you... nothing creates a well-rounded 'whole' student like a 100% male-on-male catholic testosterone sausagefest.
seriously though, with tiger woods and the william sisters closing in on golf and tennis, and these asian math whizzes over-running highschool academics, where are white folk to go? they will continually have to find new highschools to populate, and invent new sports like the "lumberjack games" on espn 5. it's quite tragic, really.
half of me is terrified.
also, i love the illustrations.
white people in hicktowns are pushing bullshit like Intelligent Design and are actually succeeding in getting it into public schools.
you know what the chinese do when that bullshit comes up?
FALUN GONG gets TIENAMEN'D.
before you know it, the SAT is going to drop Math/Verbal/Writing for Barbecue/Chevy Camaro/Depeche Mode categories.
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