This is quite a common problem and has been accentuated in recent times by private schools giving scholarships to bright children from economically challenged families, who would not otherwise be able to pay the fees that other parents are paying. Of course, the children are well-dressed and turned out, but they feel very alien amongst children from well-off families, who have a very different lifestyle to their own. Some schools have included in the scholarships a grant for employing residential tutors during the school holidays to live with the family of a child in this situation. 

First of all, the tutor has to establish a relationship with the pupil and this takes a few weeks as they probably come from different backgrounds; during this time the child comes to respect the tutor and tutor starts to build confidence in the child, who starts to realise that he or she is no worse or better than the children from well-off families; he or she is just different and that is nothing to be ashamed of – no different than being an Italian in an English school. 

The pupil grows in confidence and is almost proud that he or she has come so far from such a humble background and has done so well. This confidence makes the pupil a changed person, no longer feeling inferior, but just as good as the other children. Only a full-time tutor can achieve this.