The future never arrives

I know that I have already discussed this, but I wanted to bring it up again. Teachers are continuously pushing the idea that investing in schools is an investment in the future. It has become very clear that the future they keep promising never comes.

Like a lot of flawed arguments, there is a grain of truth to this. A vast majority, 90% according to the teachers, attend government-run schools where teachers openly brag about molding minds. This process gives these government workers an insane amount of influence over future adults. There is no question whatsoever that our schooling system has a lot of influence on the future.

Arguing about the future is nothing new. Teachers have been making the argument for decades. What does this mean? We have reached a future that teachers of the past insisted was their responsibility. What are the results? Past teachers are not using the present as proof that they were right. Why would they? The deterioration of society has corresponded with an increased reliance on the schooling process.

I suspect teachers out there will argue about funding. Sure, we keep dumping record spending into our schools, but it's not enough. It's never enough. Because they're doing a lousy job, they want us to give them even more money. What kind of incentive are we providing them if we keep increasing funding whenever they fail to provide societal benefits?

The arguments teachers are making today are the same arguments they have always made. "It's an investment in our future. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! It's for the children." We have given into them numerous times before. If they want us to give in again, they need to make a compelling argument as to why doing the same thing this time will provide drastically different results. They have not even come close.

For as long as I remember, teachers have insisted that they are vital to the future. We have been pushing nearly everyone through an undeniably powerful government-run schooling system. Teachers themselves are boasting that they are molding the minds of 90% of our population. Oddly enough, I have yet to see teachers of the past try to take credit for the 2020's.