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November 17, 2025 16 mins

When a teacher tells a 5-year-old that Santa doesn’t exist, it’s not education—it’s indoctrination. We send our kids to school expecting them to learn math, science, and civics—not to have their innocence shattered by someone else’s ideology. Teachers are meant to inspire, not destroy imagination. Childhood wonder is not a political battleground. Parents must reclaim their role, and schools must return to their true mission: educating, not preaching.

In today's episode of the Rant Network, we wonder If we don’t draw the line now, what’s next—the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, or every shred of childhood magic? Enough is enough.

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SPEAKER_01 (00:06):
It is Monday.
All right.
It's enough of that.
Yeah, I know, I know.
They just love hearing it's aMonday morning.
Mondays is definitely a greattime.
All right.
You know, when you sent yourkids off to school, you thought

(00:28):
they were gonna learn reading,mathematics, science, geography,
and you know, maybe basiccivics, right?
But when you come to find outthat the teachers are teaching
you about sexuality, aboutreligion, about what's right and

(00:53):
wrong with religion, regardlessof what you and the family want
to teach at home, you want toknow why the world is getting
dropped on its head, why the thethe the total annihilation of
the Department of Education inthe United States and should be
soon somewhere else, this isenough, is enough, is enough.

(01:16):
As a parent of now three kids,as uh married to a kindergarten
teacher in the Miami-Dade Countyarea.
I can honestly tell you theinsanity that I've heard doesn't
quite top the special momentsthat David is going to talk

(01:37):
about.
David, I remember going to myfriend Jason Tremellin's every
single Christmas Eve and used toget together with all of our
friends and family in theneighborhood and just talk, hang
out, have a good time.
Because Miss Tremellin, who wasSt.

(01:58):
Nick's, would come in the middleof the night and fill the bottom
of this tree for Jason, Greg,and Samantha.
You know, as a Jewish kid, usedto be happy, my friends getting
kind of cool shit.
You know, my family didn't dosuch robust holiday uh type
gifts.

(02:18):
And I think it's a great topicfor today because you know what?
The education system, not justin America, not just in Canada,
is being turned on its head byideologues who fail to do the
one thing that they're beingpaid to do is teach people how

(02:39):
to read, do math, understandgeography, social studies, and
science.

SPEAKER_00 (02:46):
David, you know, Stuart, I I I agree, and I I'll
I'll add one more thing.
Whoa, hang on a second.
Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_01 (02:57):
It is because normally all I get is crickets,
though.

SPEAKER_00 (03:00):
It's miracle on November 17th.
Let me ask you, Stuart.
You know, your wife, my wife arekindergarten teachers.
And I and I asked myself theother day, like as I heard the
story, what I'm about to tell ina second, was what is the role
of a teacher?
And you said educate.
And I think you missed one very,very important part of what a

(03:21):
teacher should be doing.
Inspire.
Now, inspiration comes fromwhat?
Right?
What do you want your kid tocome home and do?
Yeah, reading, writing.
I can homeschool a kid.
That's that I don't need ateacher at that point.
What a teacher is supposed to dois to help that kid go to that
level that you hope your childmay achieve.

(03:42):
Now, I'm not saying become alawyer or a doctor, but
something.
Now, it's funny because on theweekend, ironically, I watched
the movie Dead Poets Society,where we were talking about a
boarding school for boys, inwhich the institution is, you
know, the only thing that aninstitution will do is to make
sure that these are all robots,that they're follow tradition,

(04:04):
and that they're not not allowedto be free thinkers and all
that.
And here we are in 2025, andwe're saying, we've realized by
by what we've realized, thankyou, Robin.
What we've realized in thisworld, right, is that we want
children to be creative, andcreativity comes from

(04:26):
inspiration.
And teachers are hopefully goingto be there to inspire.
Now, I know what their contractsays, and I know what their job
description says, but if you goback, Stuart and think of all
the great teachers that you everhad that made a difference in
your life, it wasn't history orreading or writing arithmetic,
it was someone who inspired you.
This story killed me.

(04:47):
Buddy of mine gets in touch withme, five-year-old daughter,
loved these family, sweet littlegirls, five-year-old and a
three-year-old.
And he calls me, he says, Idon't know what to do.
My daughter's teacher at fiveyears old announces to the whole
class Santa Claus doesn't exist.
Wasn't a joke.

(05:08):
She and her fundamentalism wokemindset believed that children
should know what's right, andthat a child's innocence is
irrelevant, and that a child'simagination is irrelevant.
What's relevant is the teacher'sso-called value system.
What she believed was rightmattered more than the children.

(05:32):
And what's bad, the headmastersupported the teacher.
Parents are livid.
Now I was talking about theirhomes life.
Now imagine this five-year-oldgirl coming home telling her
three-year-old sister, SantaClaus doesn't exist.
And now you've devastated twochildren.
All because some fundamentalistdecided she knew better, that

(05:55):
she was gonna take the role of aparent, she was gonna do what
parents she decided wasn't theywere not gonna do, and that was
to get their kids on thestraight and narrow path.
Now, Stuart, you've met you talkabout the Tremelins.
I grew up on Charlie Brown.
I thought that the CharlieBrown's Christmas story was

(06:15):
great, right?
When they decorated the tree andeverybody sang hymns and
whatever.
I'm Jewish, I don't care, Ishouldn't care.
But I thought that the beauty ofChristmas was beautiful and the
stories behind it, and the wholenotion of Santa Claus and
whatever adds a lovely flavor toit.
But why should you destroy afive-year-old's imagination?

(06:35):
Why should you destroy afive-year-old's excitement that
Saint that Saint Nick is gonnacome bring them gifts?
What's next?
The Easter bunny, tooth fairy?
What else are you gonna destroyfor these kids?
We've ruined children'sinnocence, Stuart, to such an
extent it's not even funny.
When I was in the toy business,Stuart in the late 90s, if you
had a Barbie doll and you werenine years old, that was normal.

(06:59):
But today, if you're a Barbiedoll when you're nine,
something's wrong with you.
We can't let children beinnocent.
Stuart, I'll leave you withthis.
We grew up in the sameneighborhood, but while you were
at the Tremellins, I playedstreet hockey and I pretended to
be my favorite hockey player,Guy LaFleur.
I was seven, eight, nine.
I don't even remember how old Iwas.

(07:20):
I was so excited I was gonna bethat.

unknown (07:24):
What?

SPEAKER_00 (07:25):
I'm gonna you're gonna destroy my imagination,
you're gonna destroy myexcitement.
That's what this teacher did,and I think the teachers at
today have crossed the line thatthey're they're they like they
should stick to the curriculum,but they should be inspiring,
not destroying children, theyshould be lifting them up,
making them feel good.

(07:45):
No, instead, we bring genderchoices into the classroom and
we bring in all these heavy dutythings that five, six, and
seven-year-old children come on.
They're more concerned about youknow what they're gonna eat for
lunch at this point.
Why are you putting in theseheavyweight subjects on
children?

(08:07):
Let them be innocent, for God'ssake.

SPEAKER_01 (08:11):
You know, David, that was a lot to take in.
Um let me agree that you knowyou cannot make this shit up,
and that's just the bottom line.
There, they're these teachersare running amok, you know, it's
no different than in politics.

(08:33):
And why am I bringing uppolitics?
Um you have a situation where bythe modern politician has no
idea how to pass things throughgovernment.
Why am I bringing this up?
Because teachers fail tounderstand beyond academic

(08:58):
instructions, they serve, as yousaid, of being a mentor.
They're supposed to help kidsdevelop and be critical
thinkers, discipline, right?
Confidence, ethical values,positive learning environment,
you know, and and to adapt tomeet a diverse range of other

(09:20):
students because not every kidis going to believe in Santa
Claus.
David, you're right, you'reJewish, so am I?
Who gives a shit?
Right.
But when I went to school backin the dinosaur ages, as the
kids like to call me, we learnedabout Buddhism, Hinduism,
Christianity, Judaism, Muslim,right?

(09:40):
We learned about all these fivereligions.
We were forced to understand thepotential of each and everyone's
unique ability.
It didn't mean that you pickedon the kid that kind of looked a
little off or acted a littleoff, or that believed in Santa
Claus or the Easter bunny.

(10:04):
I think that teachers today arelike modern day politicians.
They know how to yell, rant, andrave about emotions that are
irrelevant, no different thanRobert De Niro running around
doing De Niro crazy shit.
You know, focus on what your jobis and not what you think your

(10:26):
job should be.
If you think your job should besomething different, then maybe
you should find another job,find another occupation.
That teacher in Grenada shouldliterally get coal for her
birthday.
Because you know what?
Why are we celebratingbirthdays?
Birthdays are irrelevant, David.

(10:47):
What is such the significance ofa birthday?
What is the significance of thisteacher being a teacher?
Why are we celebrating a goodteacher day?
You know, enough.
Why do we give them professionaldays?
We should remove all of thembecause they're clearly no
longer professionals if they'rethey're an apparatus of a
political agenda.

(11:08):
We've been doing this for a longtime.
And and and you know, uh we'vetalked about education and and
Brocked about Miami-Dade County.
You've talked about your wife'seducation, we've talked about
our kids' education.
This just really picks a bone,David, that you know what, was
not needed.

(11:29):
And you know what?
It's the fortitude of thestudents at that school to
eradicate bad teachers.
You know, the problem today isparents today don't want to
parent their children.
They ship them off to schoolbecause they don't want to
parent.
And the fault lies on the parentfor the most part,
unfortunately.

(11:49):
And I may be guilty of some ofthat sometimes.
You may be guilty or may havebeen guilty of that some of the
time.
Go to school.
I don't want to deal with you.
But in the end of the day, youhad a reliant partner at the
school who was like-minded.
You know what, David?
Charter schools, homeschools,private schools, alternative

(12:11):
education, maybe the cure fordumbass teachers like this
Grenada person.
And I hope you send thisbroadcast to that friend in
Grenada and the clips and snipsthat they should post publicly
in their local neighborhoods.
Band together.
You're better and smarter thanthe teacher who is destroying

(12:33):
your kids.
It is such a fruitful moment towatch a kid grow up.
And when your kids grow up andyou think back when they were
kids, you kind of take a Iremember when and you smile
because you remember the goodmemories.
You acknowledge they were bad,but you don't have a like-minded

(12:54):
individual in the classroom.
And either you need to changethe classroom or change the
person in the classroom or holdthe person accountable in that
classroom to do what their saidjob is supposed to do.

SPEAKER_00 (13:05):
You know, Scott, I'll I'll go, I'll go, I'll go a
step further with what you said.
Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 (13:08):
Further, you know, I was pretty far.

SPEAKER_00 (13:10):
No, you did great.
But here's what I want to askyou.
Could you, I mean, listen, Idon't know if this teacher is
single, married.
I I doesn't matter.
But if you've ever celebrated aholiday together, generally
speaking, there is a twinkle ina child's eye, there's an
excitement in there in theholiday, the beauty of the
holiday, the gift, the lights,the food, the music, you name

(13:34):
it, there's something there thatcreates that special moment.
And this teacher destroyed it.
This teacher decided by herselfthat children shouldn't enjoy.
And so when I look, when I thinkabout it, Stuart, and you know,
I reflect back on when my kids,who are not kids anymore,
they're adults in there whenthey were little kids, and they

(13:55):
got excited over innocentthings.
That was fun, that was cute.
That was the beauty of being aninnocent child.
Why do we need to make childreninto adults?
They should stay children, theyneed to stay children, they need
that innocence.
We have enough cynicism in theworld today because there is not

(14:16):
enough innocence.
Now, I'm not suggesting beinnocent and stupid and
ignorant, but at a certainpoint, a child will figure out
on their own.
There is no Santa Claus, there'sno tooth fairy, and there is no,
you know, there's no Easterbunny.
They'll figure it out on theirown.
But for a five-year-old, youjust destroyed something special
that she can never get back.
That's sad.

SPEAKER_01 (14:38):
And on that note, David, I thought you were gonna
take it even further than that,but you know, again, if you're
in Grenada and you're watchingthis podcast or catching a snip,
do me a favor.
You have a voice.
Use it.
If you don't and say, I don'thave time, you're the problem.

(15:02):
You know, you're either part ofa problem or part of a solution.
You could be both.
You can walk and chew gum, butif you decide not to do
anything, you are the problemthat's caused this issue.
And the only way you're gonnaresolve it is by being involved
in your child's education, inthe classroom, in the school, in
the politics.
And that time is as equally asimportant as the time it is to

(15:25):
make a living, to pay for thekids' shoes, bread, and cheese.
On that note, David, you wantany last words before we wrap it
up?
Congratulations, everybody.
You made it to the end.
There we go.
All right, guys, thank you forjoining in this wonderful Monday

(15:46):
noon somewhere in the planet.
We hope you've enjoyed.
We hope you've gatheredsomething.
Share it with your friends,share the snip, like.
We definitely appreciate it, andwe see the popularity growing.
And if you're in Grenada, don'tworry.
We can talk about crap fromthere too.
PM us again, guys.
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