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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Mr. Snerdley brought me something today in his Stack<\/a>, and he said, “You\u2019re gonna have to answer this for me, \u2019cause I can\u2019t figure it out.” <\/p>\n

I said, “What is it?”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a story about teenagers and how mean they are.”<\/p>\n

So I said, “Okay, if anybody can answer it, I, El Rushbo, can.” Here\u2019s the story: “From violence to verbal taunts, abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America\u2019s adolescents, according to a new, federally funded survey. It says a majority of boys and girls who date describe themselves as both victims and perpetrators. Sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, the National Survey on Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence…”<\/p>\n

Intimate violence? Okay. <\/p>\n

<\/a>“[T]he National Survey on Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, a prominent research center which provided preliminary results to The Associated Press. Input came from a nationwide sample of 667 youths aged 12-18 who\u2019d been dating within the past year and who completed a self-administered online questionnaire. Nearly 20% of both boys and girls reported themselves as victims of physical and sexual abuse in dating relationships — but the researchers reported what they called a startling finding when they asked about psychological abuse, broadly defined as actions ranging from name-calling to excessive tracking of a victim.”<\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s stalking.<\/p>\n

“More than 60% of each gender reported being victims and perpetrators of such behavior. The survey found no substantive differences in measures by ethnicity, family income or geographic location.” None of that mattered. “Elizabeth Mumford, one of the two lead researchers for the survey, acknowledged that some of the behaviors defined as psychological abuse — such as insults and accusations of flirting — are commonplace but said they shouldn\u2019t be viewed as harmless. ‘None of these things are healthy interactions,\u2019 she said. ‘It\u2019s almost more of a concern that our gut reaction is to accept this as natural.\u2019 …<\/p>\n

“‘Teens often think some behaviors, like teasing and name calling, are a “normal” part of a relationship,\u2019 says a CDC fact sheet. ‘However, these behaviors can become abusive and develop into more serious forms of violence.'” Now, I\u2019ve gotten this far reading this thing and I\u2019m starting to get really confused. I\u2019m starting to get very, very perplexed. I\u2019m not figuring out how this can happen. How can all of this be? How can these young adolescents between 12 and 18 who are dating be so rotten to each other? <\/p>\n

I thought we fixed this! I thought we had programs in place that dealt with all of this.<\/p>\n

“Bruce Taylor, the other lead researcher for the NORC survey, said the overall abuse figures were higher than previous national studies of dating abuse, revealing ‘the startlingly widespread nature of this problem,'” and the piece de resistance: “‘We found that girls perpetrate serious threats or physical violence more than boys at ages 12-14, but that boys become the more common perpetrators of serious threats or physical violence by ages 15-18,\u2019 they wrote” in the study.<\/p>\n

How can this be? What happened? Let\u2019s review. They all get Conflict Resolution 101 starting in kindergarten. They\u2019re taught conflict resolution and how to solve problems of not getting along with their neighbors. They get sex the education, some of them with cucumbers, some of them with balloons, some of them with videos, some of them actual hands on, depending on teacher that you have. But they all get sex education. (interruption) Well, we just had a story in the Stack about another female teacher that\u2019s abused another student. <\/line><\/p>\n

Would you have called it “abuse” if it happened to you when you were in school? (interruption) Yeah. (laughing) Yes. He said, “What happened? It didn\u2019t happen to us,” and he would have called it “lucky, not abuse.” It\u2019s an awful double standard, it is, and we\u2019re not mocking it. We\u2019re not making fun of it, and we\u2019re not… Well, actually we are. (interruption) Snerdley, yes. “The normal, red-blooded American young boy might not consider it abuse,” but some of them do. <\/p>\n

Anyway, none of this is supposed to happen. The “good” people have been charge of our education system. The caring people, the compassionate people, the understanding people. I remember, ladies and gentlemen, back when I still lived in New York in the early nineties. Roger Ailes, who is now the CEO of Fox News, was the executive producer of my TV show. Every Saturday afternoon in the summer would have water volleyball games at his palatial home in the Hudson River, and there were all kinds of people.<\/p>\n

Rudy Giuliani and his family showed up. There were all kinds of people there. Every week somebody brought somebody new that nobody knew. One week there was this 24\/25-year-old female teacher that showed up, and after the volleyball games in the pool there was always a barbecue. Everybody sat around talking, and inevitably the conversation drifted to politics and current affairs. I\u2019ll never forget this 24-year-old teacher began wringinog her hands and worrying that we were pushing our children too hard, too fast.<\/p>\n

We were giving them too much homework and we\u2019re making them work too hard and get up too early and spend too many hours at school and we needed to love them more and we needed to dial back the demanding tests and curriculum and homework. “These kids, we\u2019re pushing them too hard.” That, of course, sent me through the roof, and I didn\u2019t have any problem holding back. I said, “What do you mean? It\u2019s just the opposite. <\/p>\n

“If you start coddling them like this, you\u2019re not gonna prepare them for what they are gonna face when they leave the confines of your classroom and they grow up and they find out what kind of place the world can be. You\u2019ve got to push them! This is when they\u2019ve got the energy. This is when they have the mental capacity. This is when they soak it all up. You\u2019ve got to push them!” I said, “This is when you\u2019ve got to show these kids what they\u2019re capable of. You have to push them. <\/line><\/p>\n

“You have to show them that they\u2019re capable of more than they think they are, that they can learn more than they think they can learn, and they can do things that they don\u2019t think they could. This is the only shot you\u2019ve got at it.” She said, “I disagree. I think that is too mean-spirited, and you can\u2019t paint with such a broad brush. You have to take the temperature of each individual.” I\u2019m pulling my hair out, here, and I\u2019m trying to be polite. I\u2019m a guest. I\u2019m not trying to cause any trouble. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s early nineties, and I\u2019m telling you, that was an early symptom of the kind of thing that I think has now taken over much of — not all, of course, but much of — the public education system. Coddling. You\u2019re never wrong. Self-esteem! Hey, by the way, they\u2019ve all been treated to self-esteem courses. “You\u2019re wonderful. There\u2019s nothing wrong with you, Little Johnny. Why did you dip Little Heather\u2019s hair in the ink well? That\u2019s okay. That\u2019s… Johnny, you\u2019re fine.” Actually, that might not have happened. <\/p>\n

It would have in the early stages. Today, they\u2019d put the kid in jail for sexual abuse. Regardless, this coddling, this babying. They got conflict resolution; they got sex ed. Ritalin! Can we not forget that, when it comes to the little boys, we\u2019ve drugged them into basically being vegetables, and then we gave it a new name: Hyper-kineticism. Do you know what that is? That\u2019s a normal young kid with a lot of energy. Now, I realize I\u2019m on the wrong side of this.<\/p>\n

I know that some of you in the audience are starting to scream, shout, that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about. But I think a bunch of people, a bunch of adults didn\u2019t know how to deal with a normal hyperactive group of boys who… It\u2019s just not in their nature to constituent still. They have to be moving. There have to be recesses. There have to be allowances. Rather than deal with that, it was just easier to create a disease and then a drug for it.<\/p>\n

Regardless whether you think I\u2019m right or wrong, you can\u2019t deny we drugged \u2019em. We gave \u2019em Ritalin, and what is the effect of Ritalin? (interruption) Well, no. We don\u2019t want to make \u2019em zombies. They\u2019re not Walking Dead. But it dials you down, right? It kind of “smooths out the rough edges.” Yeah, it calms you down; smooths out the rough edges, right? And you sit there and absorb and gaze upon nature and think it\u2019s wonderful, whatever. But it\u2019s supposed to fix all of this. <\/p>\n

And we don\u2019t spank them. “Noooooo way! We do not abuse our children. No, no. We don\u2019t spank them, and we don\u2019t make them cut twigs from trees that they\u2019re gonna be spanked with. We do not strike them.” We\u2019ve sent them to sensitivity training. We\u2019ve sent their teachers to sensitivity training. We\u2019ve subjected them to various gender laws. I mean, we\u2019ve done everything! We\u2019ve done every liberal idea we have come up with to deny this certain reality. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve instituted, implemented all of these programs — conflict resolution, sex education, Ritalin, sensitivity training, all of these things — and yet violence in the 12 to 18 age-group, according to this survey, is at an all-time high. What happened? And girls, aged 12 to 14, are worse than boys. Meaner and all. What happened? How can this be? We\u2019re not pushing them. If they think 2 + 2 = 5, it is, so that we don\u2019t humiliate them. We\u2019ve tried to limit all forms of humiliation, including kids that learn faster than the others. We either slow them down or we give people at the low end better grades so nobody\u2019s humiliated. <\/p>\n

We, I thought, fixed all of this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so I just summed up what we\u2019re doing, and Snerdley wanted to know, “Why isn\u2019t it working? Ritalin, conflict resolution, self-esteem classes, sex-ed classes, even occasionally a teacher that will hit on a kid, gender laws, and yet they\u2019re more violent than ever.” I think the answer here, the summation, is what we aren\u2019t doing. None of this — conflict resolution, sex ed, Ritalin, sensitivity training, gender laws, none of this — even comes close to teaching children how to adapt to society, how to critically think, how to adapt to fluid circumstances, constantly in flow and changing on a dime. <\/p>\n

The reason for that is, one thing that\u2019s really absent in all these things that we\u2019re doing to try to make sure no harm comes, is we\u2019re not teaching discipline. We\u2019re not handing any out — other than if they, you know, make gun with their index finger. Then we will take them to the principal\u2019s office and read them the Riot Act. That\u2019s if a six-year-old pretends to shoot a gun with his hand, but outside of that, no discipline whatsoever.<\/p>\n

At the same time, we excuse and permit and even justify and explain all kinds of bad behavior and try to find reasons to explain it and justify it that have nothing to do with the child\u2019s behavior. We tell them how wicked and evil our society is — how unjust, how racist, how discriminatory it is, how it\u2019s oppressed everyone for centuries. Basically we\u2019re not doing anything that in any way gets close to creating happy environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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