By today's standards, being able to afford a three bedroom home in the LA metro area and raise two children on a single income, and not merely survive but be financially comfortable, isn't just a 'modest suburban lifestyle', it's an unimaginably rare privilege. Even if teachers are unionized, they aren't on the extreme high end of the income range for working class people.

I mean, I personallg know people who live exactly that "unimaginable" life in El Monte and Baldwin Park and Rancho Cucamunga and Van Nuys and Val Verde, so I hope you know you're exaggerating for effect.

But I don't even disagree with you, as I already said. Things are hard for many people, and uncertain for many more, and in many different ways.

I was talking about one of them. You're talking about one of them. Neither contradicts the other.

Since when are teachers working class?

I had high school teachers who worked construction (working class) jobs during the summer, but that wasn't their regular work.