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Ted Shinta, a teacher and adviser to
the Robotics Team at Monta Vista High
School, tells me something similar.
“When I was in high school,” he says,
“you were discouraged from voting in
student elections unless you were wearing
a varsity jacket. At most high
schools you have a popular group that
tyrannizes the others. But here the kids
in that group don’t hold any power
over the other students. The student
body is too academically oriented for
that.”
A local college counselor named
Purvi Modi agrees. “Introversion is not
looked down upon,” she tells me. “It is
accepted. In some cases it is even
highly respected and admired. It is cool
to be a Master Chess Champion and
play in the band.” There’s an introvertextrovert
spectrum here, as everywhere,
but it’s as if the population is
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