<p>Cobrat’s high school and almost all of the top NYC high schools has a large majority of kids from immigrant Chinese or South Asian families. Not very attuned to “cultural references.” (My daughter went to another of those schools as well as to elementary school in Chinatown, with 60 percent Asian kids, 60 percent free-reduced-price-lunch kids, many families where English wasn’t spoken at home.)</p>
<p>Edited to add that the Asian enrollment at NYC public schools is under 20 percent, and the great majority of the kids or parents are first-generation and poor. Not so much at Stuy which is an outlier, maybe 30-40 percent free lunch eligible, but definitely at Brooklyn Tech where my kid went.</p>