My wife Birdie comes from fairly modest circumstances herself and grew up seeing the difference that education made, which is why she feels strongly about it. I'll let her respond more later. Just make sure you're not painting everyone with affluence with the same brush. There are hard, hard workers and contributors among the affluent, too, and it was those students that she most enjoyed teaching. It was a new experience for her to see students whose parents were totally behind the educational process, which wasn't her experience during student teaching or in the school district where she got her early education.