We say children are our future.

We just don’t like paying for them.

America—land of moonshots and $2,000 concert tickets—suddenly gets fiscally shy when the topic is public education. Roads? Essential. Defense? Non-negotiable. Kids learning to think? Let’s circle back after tax season.

Meanwhile, China is producing well educated students, and parts of Europe treat education like infrastructure, not a luxury subscription with lifelong payments.

In this country, we debate whether teachers should buy their own supplies. (Spoiler: they do.)

Here is the non-controversial truth we keep treating like a hot take. Education is the middle class. Not adjacent to it and yet, we fund it like a side hustle.

We trim budgets, celebrate tax cuts, and then wonder why the workforce isn’t ready for the jobs of the future we keep talking about.

It is  a bold strategy to starve the system that creates opportunity and then complain about the lack of opportunity.

To me, it appears politically motivated especially by the clown class we have in power presently. Do you recall the Secretary of Education referring to the future of AI/1, education’s secret sauce?!

A well-educated population is harder to mislead, harder to underpay, and generally less enthusiastic about nonsense. Draw your own conclusions.

To be fair, we do spend money on education just unevenly, inefficiently, and often based on zip code. Your odds of success should not hinge on your address.

So what is the plan?

If we want to compete globally, grow the economy, and rebuild a middle class that can actually afford brunch, education is not optional, it is foundational. It is the investment.

You don’t build a future by discounting it.

You fund it. Prioritize it. Treat it like it a preferred stock investment that provides dividends which it will if allowed to grow and flourish.