Needless to say that Levi has full weight of deciding on the setting, but I like to imagine that there's some probably some old school vampires and other Outcasts from olden times who see Normies the way nobles see commoners, and it probably does get into some political squabbles.  I expect that wizards/witches/warlocks (Merryweather has been just saying "practicioners") tend to get expected to "prove" themselves as a result, which would explain why they don't show up as much in the Academy: they probably get their own stigma, especially as teenagers when they don't have much innate power and can't hardly do much.  Schoolyard politics are the worst.