You're using the conditions of your town to justify opposition to a state-level question in a state where educational conditions are grossly disproportionate on a town by town level.

MA was a hundred years ahead of Brown vs the Board, and integrated schools in 1855 because we had redlined minority populations and used a township funding model, meaning that wealthier families on one side of the tracks got better schools than poorer families on the other side.

I bring this up because the result is that MA schools have been inequitably funded through ~170 years of disinvestment that has resulted in gross imbalances in education needs, spending levels, and outcomes from one town to another.

Your halcyon circumstance living in a community that puts too much money in schools, has tiny classes for your youngest kids, and has an aid in every classroom is an exception, is no reason to oppose the distribution of resources to towns that are overfilled, under-budgeted, and short-staffed.

And using learning outcomes as a justification for stripping money from your school system because those kids went through a pandemic like the rest of us is just plain gross.

Let me reframe what this person appears to be saying for anyone reading this far down: "I'm going to vote down a question on the ultra-rich that will provide much needed funding to the poorest schools in the state because the staff in my wealthy district has it too easy and didn't offer themselves up on a sacrificial altar, defying regional norms for schools. And, despite all indication to the contrary, I'm presuming that's everywhere so fuck'em."

Please don't take that approach to this question when you vote. If you have a fortunate situation, even if you're dissatisfied with your schools, do not take it out on every school in the state. We have schools competing for subs and the poorer districts are losing. We have schools that are pretty and new with limited behavioral concerns and, because of staffing shortages, people are leaving poorer, rougher schools to enjoy the change in cultural climate. Our schools are Swiss cheese right now, and if you aren't dealing with a hole, your neighbor is.

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As for my original "Try it" comment--which frankly has nothing to do with this unique situation-- I'm more trying to clarify that concerns that the money will simply be re-appropriated without push-back are false. There will be plenty of push-back, and the state senate will have to include in their calculation the fact that if they cook the books and are caught, they'll have a considerable, organized response to contend with.