This used to be so here, too and is, I think, about to swing back that way, if the tendency to reintroduce selective class-centred schooling by the back door continues. But Thatcherism ushered in a culture of looking down on education and educators in the public sector and depicting business skills as the only valuable way to rise, which has hugely undermined state education here.
My mother is a 1st generation immigrant, in a way -- she moved from Wales to the English Midlands to get work. And that has had its effects, too, as she was definitely Othered.