{"id":18189,"date":"2011-08-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-18T20:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:26:03","slug":"a_home_schooled_10th_grader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/08\/17\/a_home_schooled_10th_grader\/","title":{"rendered":"A Home-Schooled 10th Grader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Eric in Harvard, Illinois. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. Greetings from the Midwest. How are you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Very well, sir. Very well indeed. Better than a human being should be.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Great! Well, I was ecstatic to hear the ninth grade student yesterday calling. I\u2019m in tenth grade, and unfortunately I think I have an advantage over him. I\u2019m homeschooled, and I was listening to that little bit when I was on the line where it\u2019s making fun of homeschooling. I thought that was pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We do not make fun of homeschooling.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I know, I know.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019ve got a satire. We play some of these bits and when people on hold, they hear these things.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, I thought it was funny, though.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But we don\u2019t make fun of homeschooling here. Don\u2019t give people the wrong idea.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, I know that. I know that. It\u2019s by far a better way of learning, and we win all the spelling bees and the science fairs and everything. So, go figure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I know. They also think you may as well be space aliens.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, really.<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: You can actually read. You have a love for the country. Now, how does this happen?<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_53722\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/10th.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I actually went to public school for K through six, and then we had some problems with learning and I was paired up with a couple illegal immigrants, you know, Hispanic children in an ESL class and that was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back, and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Dare I ask, what is an ESL class?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s an English as second language class for science, and so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You had to take English as a second language class?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. Yes. You couldn\u2019t decide anything. You just were put into it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You speak English!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, I know but &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You had to take English as a second language course?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right, right; and a science class, too. So it wasn\u2019t like learning Spanish. But you were integrated with a Hispanic student and the goal was class was to have the students exposed to English while learning science at the same time, and that was just it. So now I\u2019m homeschooled, and I use a wonderful curriculum and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me ask you a question.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Do your parents go to church?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (snorts) Oh, I knew it. Do you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (snorts) I knew it. I knew it. 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