Reply To: Judaism’s Lower Class

I think it depends on the community.
I’m from a large Frum community where Baalei Teshuva are treated like everyone else.
The main community school (with well over 1,000 students) has “Grandparents Day” watch the videos. Many Zaidys have black hats & beards & some are Chasidish but there’s also plenty of “Kippot Serugot” & men wearing yarmulkes they obviously pulled out of the drawer & dusted off for this occasion. There have also been (a few) Zaidys that wore NO head covering at all.
Many Bubbys (almost all amongst the younger Bubbys) cover their hair, many do not. Long Sheitels, Short Sheitels, hats or not covered dyed bright red hair is irrelevant. Very rare but a few Bubbys show up wearing pants.
No one cares & all are welcome.
It’s really how the Kehilla is taught by the Rabbanim about how to treat & accept Baalei Teshuva. From what I understand in many communities they would not be ok with what I described above. But B’H there’s a certain open mindedness & tolerance where I’m from where (almost) everyone is accepting of other Jews even those from very differently backgrounds & ways of practicing Yiddishkeit.