K-12 Horror Stories

By Contributing Writer on September 9, 2026

September 9, 2026

By Brian Massie, A Watchman on the Wall

We thank Bruce D. Price for this very informative article on the plight of public education.

Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, and education reformer. (For information about his two books on education and nine novels, visit Lit4u.com, his literary site.)

K-12: Horror Stories

Many observers worry that our public schools, once among the world’s best, are now some of the worst. A caravan of videos report on the crisis from many perspectives. Every American should spend at least an hour experiencing this horrific news.

Search these actual titles or anything similar:

Where In The World Did All The Teachers Go?
Why So Many Parents Are Opting Out of Public Schools
Why 54% of American Adults Read Below a 3rd Grade Level
Is Public School Making Kids Dumber?
Gen Alpha WILL NEVER READ
I QUIT Teaching in Public School and Here’s WHY!
How School Makes You Less Intelligent
Kids Are Graduating… But They Can’t Read
Why Some Kids Just Don’t Get Math
Gen Alpha Can’t Read Three-Letter Words

It’s not simply that academics are devastated. Character, basic skills, and common sense are also devastated. Here’s testimony from an HR person working in a large corporation:

“We are now supervising these employees who grew up in this new American culture and education system. They won’t come to work on time. Many NEVER take accountability for their actions or inaction. I have been threatened and been the focus of their tantrums when I try to make them take accountability. Many of them are extremely mean, self-centered, and they cannot see how their actions effect the whole. It’s all about them. Many of them are pathological liars. I’ve noticed that a lot of them require constant feedback and cannot stay on track or get things done without constant supervision. They commonly will be mean or dismissive to others, but expect baby treatment or sympathy if they have a personal problem of their own. I’m sure it sounds like I’m describing a room full of toddlers, but I’m not. The funny thing is that many of them have children of their own, which is very alarming. I understand why teachers are leaving. This is exhausting.”

How do you explain all these tragic developments? There are only two possibilities. This incompetence and suffering were caused by mysterious disturbances in the cosmic matrix. Or, much more likely, evil people who want to conquer this country started by weakening the school system. Yes, you can bet on that. For starters, they attacked the abilities to read, do math, and understand simple statements. Finally, they did all they could to undermine every aspect of the school system, especially History. So nobody will know what happened once upon a time in the United States:

Here’s some critical background: in 1917 the Russian Communist Party defeated Tsarist opponents. It’s a huge country and a few more years were required to consolidate the loose ends. In 1920 Trotsky, Stalin and Lenin announced the Communist International, also known as the Comintern, with the order to take over the rest of the world. These people were not working in secret; there was no shame, only pride, for they had conquered a country twice as wide as the United States. They were on a roll. They saw an easy goal, just infiltrate everything and pretty soon they own it. That’s the Fabian recipe.

Here’s a summary of the last 80 years. The Communists praised every policy that would hurt the target country. So all schools must embrace sight-words, Constructivism, and elementary math. Traditional methods that always worked were effectively outlawed. Terminating in a shocking pool of nonsense, in my opinion, and that’s why when you see these videos, you see the schools are tangled in no-win propositions. The students in most situations, no matter the phony grades, cannot actually read. Even if they memorize 500 sight-words perfectly, the next word in a book can be a word they don’t know. And all the jibber-jabber about guessing or using context is rarely helpful. What we know for sure is that our faux-educators have succeeded in diminishing the minds of millions of Americans.

If you want to bring teachers back to school, how about giving them proper support? You know the Education Establishment is ethically rotten by how badly they treat our teachers.

So what is our most immediate problem? There’s a great passivity, a pathetic indifference to improving K-12. Let’s go in the opposite direction. The 1000 people controlling the Education Establishment should be encouraged to resign. We have 535 Congressmen and Senators that should be wearing some sort of scarlet letter on their foreheads in so far as they allowed K-12 to deteriorate.

I wonder a lot about the upscale people who are billionaires or running big organizations. Why do they let the schools be taken down? It’s disgusting. What could we say to wake them from their intellectual torpor?

SAVING K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them?

by Bruce Deitrick Price (Author), Anna Faktorovich (Designer) Format: Paperback

Public schools are a vast money pit. Education officials seem to prefer inefficiency and mediocrity. We could have better schools at less cost. This book explains how.

Bruce Deitrick Price is the country’s most prolific and aggressive writer on education. He is good at explaining the root causes, the problems that typically occur, and the ideological obsessions that lead our Education Establishment astray.

This book presents 65 articles divided into 10 themes: Reading; Math; Weird Theories and Methods; Common Core; Historical Background; Guilty as Charged; Where Are Our Leaders; and What to Do Now. You can read the articles in any order and dip in wherever you want. This is pleasant reading about grim topics. If we don’t save the public schools, we’re not going to save very much else.

Can be purchased on Amazon Prime.