One of the hallmarks of a story with a solid take on class/privilege is that the younger the characters are, the more sympathetic they are — the more likely they are to make "mistakes" in the general direction of goodness, structural expectations aside
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Once kids become more socially outward-facing at around age 4, they tend to display a lot of pro-social behavior that almost acts like a contrast dye on whatever cultural norms they're immersed in that dictate cruelty or neglect
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This isn't to say that kids always behave like paragons of humanity, but generally speaking they haven't yet received the memo on who to reflexively prefer, hate, pity, resent, attack or defend, so they're usually just going off of the behavior they see around them
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