I know many people who graduated from this school district....<p>&quot;What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class.&quot;<p>This may be a great general quote, but should not be applied to this town. Immigrants moving here are not poor, not &quot;off the boat&quot;. West Windsor is a township with mostly upper middle class people (Median Income per 2010 census was $156,110[1]) and a very high number of people with advanced degrees per capita (41% have graduate&#x2F;professional degree as of 2013[2]), most of these immigrants came here with advanced degrees. People are not moving here to get ahead, they are already well established in the upper middle class. Houses are insanely expensive in West Windsor and Plainsboro, you will find people selling 3 bedroom condos in the 600k range, this is a town with a long commute to NYC or Philadelphia.<p>There are plenty of people of all races on both sides, I think the author is taking some liberties to up the page view count.<p>There likely is a backlash from a tiger mom like segment, but this article seems like a NYT reporter just trying to get something out on the heels of the recent Atlantic article[3] on the kids in Silicon Valley being so stressed at school they committ suicide.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;West_Windsor_Township,_New_Jersey#2010_Census" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;West_Windsor_Township,_New_Jer...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.west-windsor-plainsboro.k12.nj.us&#x2F;common&#x2F;pages&#x2F;DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=17749112" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.west-windsor-plainsboro.k12.nj.us&#x2F;common&#x2F;pages&#x2F;Di...</a> p. 10<p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-silicon-valley-suicides&#x2F;413140&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-sili...</a>