OP could also have meant he went from a private Russian funded private school for elites to a school for disadvantaged children (such as children with poor parents or recently immigrated) in a ghetto like neighborhood.
It'd still be another single data point though.
Edit: just another variation of "children these days" and "when I was young we used to go to school on foot and swim through the river"
It'd still be another single data point though.
Edit: just another variation of "children these days" and "when I was young we used to go to school on foot and swim through the river"