Has middle class "white flight" occurred in your region?

yearstogo
Tue, 12 May 2020 12:48:14 +0000

hebegebe:

There is a different type of flight I am seeing that is unrelated to housing costs. In towns with excellent high schools, Whites leave and other racial groups, primarily Asian, move in.

Many parents it seems want a good school system for their kids, but not one which is becoming highly difficult for them to shine.

And some of us leave our nearby public schools that are primarily white to ensure the child goes to a more challenging school that is majority Asian. If the most challenging/engaging school were majority “pick a color/race” we would have gone there instead.

We are in a relatively wealthy neighborhood and the overwhelmingly white schools here were a huge disappointment focusing almost entirely on sports. Even though our son is a very good athlete, we wanted school to be more about academics.

To the extent it matters I am white and my wife would not be considered white by hardly anyone, although for census/college apps she is considered white.