{"id":25886,"date":"2007-06-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:13","slug":"coming_to_a_school_near_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to a School Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

RUSH: This is a story from the American Spectator<\/a>, but it\u2019s about what\u2019s happening in the UK. <\/p>\n

‘Just as you think Britain\u2019s local authorities have reached the edge of the envelope in vacuous, bullying stupidity, that they can go no further in their efforts to create a society of politically correct sheep, they excel themselves once again. It\u2019s old news now that at Seagry in Wiltshire, children were banned from playing on a veteran steamroller which had stood in the school\u2019s playground without accident since 1964. It was deemed ‘not proper playground equipment\u2019 and ‘failed to meet any required standards whatsoever.\u2019 Something — actually a quasi-official national body — called ‘Sports England\u2019 proposed eliminating games like sack races, three-legged races and egg-and-spoon races from kindergartens and nursery schools in order to prevent children learning a competitive ethos, proposing problem-solving exercises instead. The government also supports banning games of musical chairs at nursery schools because they may lead to aggression,\u2019 and of course somebody is always left out. <\/p>\n

In fact, we played musical chairs once on my TV show, and Snerdley was the odd man out, called me a bloated bigot as he stormed off the set. Anyway, they\u2019re taking anything that is normal behavior for children out of the realm of possibility. They\u2019re eliminating it. ‘At the village of Great Somerford, Wiltshire, playground swings were ordered demolished for being too tall. A charity kite-flying contest for children was banned by a Lancashire council on the grounds that they did not have health and safety insurance. At Torbay, palm trees were condemned by the council because ‘they have very sharp leaves.” They\u2019re not leaves. They\u2019re fronds. They\u2019re called palm fronds. ‘Liberal Democrat councillor Colin Charlwood is reported to have said, in what sounds like dialogue from The Day of the Triffids: ‘what if one of those leaves caught a child in the eye for example. It\u2019s a little bit like keeping tigers – they are beautiful to look at, but you wouldn\u2019t want them wandering the streets.\u2019 These are trees they are talking about!\u2019 They\u2019re talking about palm trees and comparing them to tigers. A palm tree is a palm tree, but it doesn\u2019t attack. <\/p>\n

‘Children at one primary school were prohibited from making daisy-chains in case they picked up germs from the flowers. Another school stopped children making hanging flower-baskets for the same reason. Playground pursuits like handstands, tag, yo-yos, tree-climbing and skipping have also been banned in various places,\u2019 in the UK. As I say, this is coming to a school near you. I had this story in the stack today, and I was just thinking back — also, some places in the United States are already banning recess for many of these same reasons. When I was a kid, I always said, ‘When I get older I\u2019m not going to be an old fuddy-duddy. I\u2019m not going to be one of these people constantly telling kids I had to walk ten miles in the snow to school every day. I\u2019m not going to become that.\u2019 But I tell you, this takes me back. You know, when we were all kids, the anticipation of the clock reaching that moment in time where we got to go to recess was one of the only decent things about school — well, for me. It was something that we all looked forward to. We went out there, we ran around on the playground, and they did it, by the way, because, you know, with a bunch of little kids, you gotta burn \u2019em out. You have to have \u2019em use up the energy. They don\u2019t do that now. They give \u2019em Ritalin when they got too much energy. They don\u2019t let \u2019em out and do recess. Instead, drug \u2019em up, dope \u2019em out. That\u2019s how we control them today instead of just letting them burn off some of this excess energy. <\/p>\n

I remember the playground in my school was big, huge, but it was fenced. Big chain-link fences and teachers were out there playing around, too, making sure everything was okay. But the fence, you know, provided a boundary. And we were allowed to play safely inside the boundary, had a teacher or two out there with a watchful eye making sure that it was okay. I remember snowball fights during recess, all kinds of things. We\u2019d go out there and it was only ten or 15 minutes, but we\u2019d try get a kick ball or something like that. When I see this story from the UK about all of these things being banned because these liberals just have to control everybody\u2019s life and they have to assume that everybody\u2019s life is rotten; it\u2019s fraught with danger out there; it\u2019s a dangerous world, and we must protect and shield our little children from all these potential dangers and hardships. In the process, they learn nothing, and they are not learning boundaries, either, because liberals don\u2019t want boundaries, folks. They don\u2019t want guidelines, such as right and wrong, or morality or lessons that you might find in a Bible. They want all of that wiped out. They don\u2019t want there to be a framework for anything so that people can know where the line is that\u2019s not to be crossed. <\/p>\n

By the way, the reason for the line being there is so you do cross it now and then. That\u2019s how you learn not to cross it. It\u2019s how you learn where the line is. They want to obliterate the lines. They want to eliminate the fences. They want to eliminate the boundaries. The guardrails of life is what they\u2019re trying to eliminate here. Aside from liberals, they don\u2019t want anybody saying, ‘You can\u2019t do that.\u2019 The liberals are going to be the ones saying you can\u2019t do that and what they can\u2019t do is pretty much what are normal things for kids to do. Human beings need boundaries, need guardrails, need defined rules and schedules and expectations. Society needs these things, and now they\u2019re being obliterated from schools in the UK, and it\u2019s starting to happen here, too, and it will spread. Liberals are liberals. Doesn\u2019t matter where they live, Sri Lanka, the UK, liberals are liberals. Look at what life is like for kids these days. We just had a story in the first hour, a charter school in Ohio is serving kids gin with water. It\u2019s an ancient African tribal thing that teaches honesty. They give the kids plain water, and then teaspoon of gin, a teaspoon of water mixed and the kids have to say which is which, and when they correctly identify the gin — how hard\u2019s that, if you\u2019re a sixth grader? Then they say, ‘Oh, good you have learned your lesson for honesty today.\u2019 Man, would I have loved to have had gin when I was six or eight. Look at all what\u2019s happening now. They\u2019ve got cell phones, kids got cell phones; they\u2019ve got DVD players in their cars; they all have a MySpace page out there; they got PlayStation3s. Heck, teachers are even giving \u2019em sex, folks. <\/p>\n

None of this was happening when I was in school, none of it was. Look at the things that they are doing for kids and look at what they are denying them. Are you telling me that the things that they are denying are more harmful than the things that are going on in school? Snerdley was telling me — because I was talking to him about this during the break back in his office, the way you had a couple 16 year old kids come over to mow your grass? Yeah, they come and help and you do some of the yard work yourself. Oh. Good for you. I don\u2019t do yard work. I was punished as a kid. One of my objectives in life was to never, ever have to mow a yard. At any rate, Snerdley says these two kids come over, 16 years old, and it\u2019s summertime. They\u2019re out of school, and what did you ask them? What was the question? Oh, yeah, ‘What do you do in the summertime?\u2019 Oh, we\u2019re working on my MySpace page on the Internet. Snerdley said, ‘What do you do?\u2019 ‘Oh, I\u2019ve got this great girl I met on my MySpace, we\u2019re going to back and forth.\u2019 Snerdley was beside himself, said to the 16-year-old kid, ‘There are real girls out there. It\u2019s summertime. They\u2019re waiting for you. They are actually out there and you\u2019re involved here in a virtual relationship on a computer?\u2019 And I said, ‘You\u2019re getting the wrong idea of this, Mr. Snerdley.\u2019 This is actually something I wish I would have had, too, when I was young. Can you imagine if this 16-year-old marries this woman that he\u2019s having the virtual relationship with? Perfect marriage, you\u2019ll never meet her, never even see her.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jennifer in Canyon Lake, California. Jennifer, one of the top ten all-time favorite female names of mine, by the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, well, thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s an honor to speak to you. My husband and I are huge fans. He\u2019s been listening since he was like 12 years old and turned me on to you. Thank God he did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Rush babies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Definitely. My comment is you were talking about schools, and I\u2019m actually a first grade teacher, and at my school a parent is attempting to sue our school because his little girl got stung by a bee on the playground.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That doesn\u2019t surprise me, sue the school, yeah, for a bee sting, the school is supposed to prevent that by not letting the kids outside, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s what I was thinking when I heard what you were saying, that\u2019s the way it\u2019s going, taking everything away from the kids.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s just a money grab. That\u2019s just a litigious parent.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s something that ‘back in my day\u2019 it wouldn\u2019t have happened because it\u2019s asinine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, very.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s literally asinine to blame the school there\u2019s a bee anywhere running around, especially outside.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that news. It doesn\u2019t surprise me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is a story from the American Spectator, but it\u2019s about what\u2019s happening in the UK. ‘Just as you think Britain\u2019s local authorities have reached the edge of the envelope in vacuous, bullying stupidity, that they can go no further in their efforts to create a society of politically correct sheep, they excel themselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nComing to a School Near You - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Coming to a School Near You - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: This is a story from the American Spectator, but it\u2019s about what\u2019s happening in the UK. ‘Just as you think Britain\u2019s local authorities have reached the edge of the envelope in vacuous, bullying stupidity, that they can go no further in their efforts to create a society of politically correct sheep, they excel themselves […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_579145170b43e.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_579145170b43e.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_579145170b43e.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/\",\"name\":\"Coming to a School Near You - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-19T05:25:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-19T05:25:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Coming to a School Near You\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Coming to a School Near You - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Coming to a School Near You - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: This is a story from the American Spectator, but it\u2019s about what\u2019s happening in the UK. ‘Just as you think Britain\u2019s local authorities have reached the edge of the envelope in vacuous, bullying stupidity, that they can go no further in their efforts to create a society of politically correct sheep, they excel themselves […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_579145170b43e.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_579145170b43e.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_579145170b43e.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/","name":"Coming to a School Near You - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2011-05-19T05:25:13+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-19T05:25:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/coming_to_a_school_near_you\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Coming to a School Near You"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}