Whatever. My Dad grew up dirt poor, worked his way up.Many Jews were poor. They prospered because of Education.
i never said good or bad, rich or poor.
I lived in a bedroom commuter town, so we had everybody in high school.
It was an observation, no different if they were 1st generation off the boat, or established back to the 1700s.
There were life experiences including bombs and bomb threats, gang warfare in the halls with blades, bats, chains, and zip guns. The halls and staircases became the scenes of forcible rape and murder. And all in the years 1968 to 1970.