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. [Read more @ WSJ]
I attended Cupertino High School for one year & I remember that school was like 90% Chinese, so I’m very surprised WSJ didn’t use it as an example, as well. Maybe b/c ‘Tino is a complete shithole-of-a-school from the outside. The famous Kurt Rambis of the Los Angeles Lakers attended Tino, so we’re special in our own way.
Regardless, the Asianification of the Bay Area has been going on a while now. If you drove down Stevens Creek Blvd. on any day of the week in 1998, you would’ve noticed a 2:1 ratio of Asians to whities, so that’s one gauge of the power behind the Asian community in San Jose. Just wait until they start multiplying…!!
