<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Low class: blue collar, also called "the proles" by Fussell and Orwell<br> Today many elementary and high school teachers are lower<br> class, which has changed from 1950.
<br></blockquote></div><br>In what sense are teachers "lower class": income, social status, class of origin, accent, education (!), something else? They are certainly white collar rather than blue collar, if those terms retain any of their literal meaning.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou