[anamax]

> Assuming $100k in tax, you're only paying them $2k

Where are you getting your numbers?

In California, public education is guaranteed >50% of state spending. That's on top of federal and local spending. (Schools in "rich" areas don't get state funding, so they must locally fund. Some of that locally-raised money is taken by the state.)

Grocery store people work and have contact with far more people....

[neetle]

> Where are you getting your numbers?

I suspect I had mixed up federal and total tax revenue %. We're still only talking an avg of $4k per working person for the entire system though, if you take the total funding sans property tax and divvy it up by the working population (90bn, ~30% prop tax, 16.9mil working pop).

I realise the avg isn't going to be representative of the general population, but the marginal utility of money should roughly scale with the amount of that paid per-person.

> Grocery store people work and have contact with far more people.

Honestly not entirely sure of your source on this. I'd suspect that having several hundred students in the same building for an entire day with central AC would be more of a petrie dish than your typical grocery store most of the week.

[anamax]

> you take the total funding sans property tax

Since property tax is a huge source of school funding, "sans property tax" is like saying that we're going to ignore taxes paid by folks who live in detached houses.

> > Grocery store people work and have contact with far more people.

> Honestly not entirely sure of your source on this.

Several hundred is a fairly large school, such schools don't have a single HVAC system, AND Covid doesn't work that way.

Moreover, you significantly underestimate store traffic. (Far more people go to grocery stores than go to schools.)

Costcos have 750 parking spaces and they turn-over 10-12x times a day. Even with only one person per car, that's 750 different people/day, >5k/week, or >15k/month. (Schools are the same people every day.) Walmarts are comparable.

Yes, Costco is 2-3x bigger than the typical grocery store but there's still no comparison. Grocery store workers have far more exposure than teachers.