Thanks for sharing notnaffnaf. Sadly a lot of this is due to perceptions. For the same reason I suspect that if we were to visit good high schools in Africa or Latin America offering honors Computer Science classes, we will find that they be full of African and Latin American children respectively, not white or Asian ones.
But one of the big issues is they are filled with young men not the young women. For some reason as a society were aren't encouraging our young women to take these classes.
As to race, your point is partially correct. But my school is very multicultural but it's very specific races that take the advanced math & computer science. (European, Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Indian.) Virtual no Hispanic, Persian, Middle Eastern, or Black kids are in these classes. (I am talking heritage here.. MOST of the kids are AMERICANS born here.) I think this mostly comes from their family expectations.
