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RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\nRUSH: Katie, San Andreas, California. Hi. Great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you. I\u2019ve been dreaming about this day for so long because I was a Rush child and I\u2019m raising Rush children now. My mother is probably listening to this, and she\u2019s like, “Oh, my God. She got on.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, congratulations. That\u2019s great to hear.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I also want to say mega prayers to you. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all the time, and we pray for a full recovery.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. I was told I need to get to the point. I live in a small community in California. I wanted to talk about and share with you how this is affecting us. I\u2019m homeschooling my children now. I have three children 8, 5, and 2. And this has rocked our world. We are healthy, thank God. But it\u2019s rocked our world in the fact that I don\u2019t know how to teach my daughter Common Core. I don\u2019t know how to teach the reading strategies that are expected so that she\u2019s gonna pass the state tests. I don\u2019t know how to teach reading to my 5-year-old with the expectations that they\u2019re teaching.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m concerned for their future education. My husband and I have the conversation daily, do we hold them back? What do we do? They are missing a third of the school year, and like you were pointing out before, why? The numbers aren\u2019t there. I\u2019m having such a hard time wrapping my head around this. We\u2019re changing everyone\u2019s daily life for such a small —<\/p>\n
RUSH: But the California situation — now, one thing, I need to be as accurate as I can here. The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But that still didn\u2019t mitigate the fact that five to 7,000 Chinese flying into and out of California every day<\/a> for who knows how long and that the numbers of people infected and the death toll in California is so far below what common sense would tell you it should be. And there has to be a reason for it. As a layman, I don\u2019t know what it is.<\/p>\n CALLER: I can\u2019t wrap my head around it. We\u2019ve been locked down. They canceled school the week of St. Patrick\u2019s Day so the 16th of March they canceled school. The kids were supposed to be on spring break for two weeks. That Thursday after St. Patrick\u2019s Day — so the 19th, I guess — our governor, who\u2019s a genius, put us all on lockdown. And, you know, we\u2019ve been sheltered in place. My husband has an essential job, so thank God he\u2019s still working and he\u2019s still getting paid. But, I mean, you\u2019re just changing everyone\u2019s daily life. And I have a hard time, I\u2019m just having such a hard time with it.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, let me get back to your homeschooling question.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: And maybe I misinterpreted it. You don\u2019t want to do it? You would rather they be exposed to Common Core?<\/p>\n CALLER: No, I\u2019d rather — see, I guess I\u2019m torn on that one is I think the social aspect of my kids going to school, they miss that daily, but then for me to make sure that I\u2019m still teaching them so they\u2019re not gonna be behind next year, I feel like I have to expose them a little bit to Common Core. Does that make sense?<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay, I get what you mean.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: I get what you mean.<\/p>\n CALLER: I don\u2019t want to be a teacher. I taught nine years ago.<\/p>\n RUSH: I actually was thinking about this over the weekend as I was plotting my return to the EIB studios, and I was just recording random thoughts as I had them so that I wouldn\u2019t forget them, and one of the random thoughts I had, I heard somebody — don\u2019t remember, doesn\u2019t matter — complaining about having their kids at home with them all day and what the hell they were gonna do. And kids don\u2019t do well at home, they gotta get out but they can\u2019t get out, people are going crazy.<\/p>\n So I thought, you know, I happen to like home. I\u2019ve built my life around being home. I got everything I need at home. I\u2019ve set it up that way. I don\u2019t have to leave home for anything. I love being home. I\u2019ve always dreamed of having a home. It\u2019s just one of my quirks. So how can I be helpful and transfer this attitude to other people? Because right now people don\u2019t have any choice. We\u2019re being ordered to stay home under penalty of this or that.<\/p>\n So what can you tell your kids? Well, educating them, you have such a golden opportunity here. You have no choice, they are at home. They\u2019re prisoners. You\u2019re prisoners. You have a golden opportunity to correct whatever kind of drivel they have been taught. And you\u2019re not under time pressure. You don\u2019t have to do eight hours of school a day. You can devise your own method for doing this. You can instill in them the concept of nationalism and patriotism and tell them exactly why they have to stay home. You know, they\u2019re not too young to learn. How old are your kids?<\/p>\n RUSH: The 8-year-old is not too young to learn some of these things.<\/p>\n CALLER: Oh, absolutely not. Like, we start our day with the Pledge. We do the Star-Spangled Banner, and my 8-year-old, I don\u2019t know what she was being taught in school, but she just was under the assumption everything was free. And I was like no, nothing is free. No. Everything costs money. We\u2019re gonna go back to capitalism 101 here.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right. Well, exactly. But in the meantime there are some other lessons that they\u2019re learning, and among them — and I wish I had had more of it my whole life, particularly when I was younger, and that\u2019s discipline. You have an opportunity to teach discipline that you don\u2019t even have to be mean about it because there is no alternative. They have to learn to deal with these restrictions. They have to learn to come up with ways to keep themselves, quote, entertained, busy, whatever to pass the time because that\u2019s the key. You can find ways for it to be productive.<\/p>\n Discipline, I think, is one of the greatest lessons that could be taught during this. And also there is this concept — a lot of people disagree, but there is the concept of denial. They can\u2019t go out. They can\u2019t do this, they can\u2019t do that. You have to tell \u2019em why. We\u2019re in a war. We are being attacked by an invisible enemy that doesn\u2019t care who it attacks and can kill a lot of people. It\u2019s your job to keep them safe, and you love them, and that\u2019s why this is all happening. And there\u2019s certain things that right now they just can\u2019t do and just can\u2019t have.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a combination of discipline and denial. You can\u2019t always go where you want. You can\u2019t always go where you want when you want. And you have to learn to use your time at home to learn things, to become a better person, become more educated, more informed. There are opportunities in all this. I believe that there\u2019s good in everything that happens. It may be hard to find, it may be invisible, but it will reveal itself.<\/p>\n CALLER: I completely agree. And, you know, I had my mental emotional breakdown Sunday when this was gonna go on for 30 more days, but then I was like I need to look at it as a half full glass, that I have the opportunity to spend more time with my children, to influence them in the way that I want them to be influenced, to teach them how great of a country we do live in and the Founding Fathers and all that stuff that they\u2019re not being taught in school.<\/p>\n RUSH: There you go. There you go. Now, folks, a lot of this stuff I imagine to some of you sounds very Pollyannish out there and to some of you it may sound very naive and unrealistic, but it is what it is, to use the cliche. And there are opportunities here that are presenting themselves, and they\u2019re not incidental, and they\u2019re not insignificant, and they\u2019re not cliched. But the other thing, Katie, this can\u2019t go on. I\u2019m gonna keep saying this until it permeates. You say 30 more days and then — you know what they\u2019re gonna do?<\/p>\n I\u2019m gonna be a little selfish. I have a teaching aid for you. That would be the Rush Revere series, five books that are written for the kids a little older than your 8-year-old, but she can do it. And then the other two that you have will be qualified before long. The Rush Revere series on the founding of America<\/a>, that\u2019s written truthfully for kids in your age group and coming. I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to talk to you.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033120-EIB-Callers-x.jpg\")
CALLER: They are 8, 5, and 2. And that\u2019s what I\u2019ve done —<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/05Rushrevere650.jpg\")
<\/a>They\u2019re not gonna do it in 30-day intervals. They\u2019re gonna tell us the sequester will continue for another two weeks. And everybody will say, “Oh, two weeks, we can handle that.” And then the next two weeks, two weeks again. And then another two weeks, another two weeks, because psychologically it is thought that we\u2019ll accept that it might be over in two more weeks, every two weeks. But this can\u2019t go on interminably. It just can\u2019t. I\u2019m glad that you called, Katie. And I appreciate the time.<\/p>\n