My other half is a teacher in a state primary in an inner-city urban school, with the vast majority of the pupils being either immigrants themselves, or the children of immigrants. She absolutely loves every second of it, even though she leaves the house at 6:30 in the morning and gets home at 6:30 in the evening, spending a lot of time after she gets home and at weekends working.
From what I know and understand she's a good teacher, finishing uni with a first and being rated "good with outstanding characteristics" by Ofsted in her NQT year. She has a great relationship with her kids, coming from a poor white council estate herself she understands at least to some extent what their situation is like, and takes the effort to learn all of their names, their behaviour, what makes them tick etc etc. She has absolutely no problems with troublesome behaviour, setting boundaries at the outset and easing them slightly when the children are behaving well.
On the contrary, listening to her there are some absolutely dire teachers in her school from the same ethnic backgrounds as these kids. Not even taking the time to learn their names, instead snapping their fingers and yelling "You! Yes you!" to get a kid to do something (just as a simple example).
As a complete contrast, I work as technical support in an all-girls secondary and sixth form boarding and day school, where the vast majority of the girls are from wealthy backgrounds, with names like "Darcy" and "Phoebe". The amount of hand-holding that goes on with these girls is astonishing, kids that would not even pass an English GCSE with a D in a state school often end up with As or Bs.
I've heard it best from one of the teachers at the school, that it's actually dumber kids that usually end up in private schools - this teacher in particular sent his smart elder daughter to a state secondary but his thicker younger kid comes to our school.
- I'm at a school in Golcar area 
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