Primary school children as young as four were ordered to smash up chocolate Santas with hammers after learning he doesn’t exist.
Furious parents say their kids were left in tears by the bombshell dropped by a volunteer from a Christian charity at an assembly.
Rachael Cotton, headteacher at Fleet Wood Lane School in Lincolnshire, has apologised and promised not to work with the organisation again.
Although she denied that pupils were told Father Christmas isn’t real, parents say their children came to that conclusion based on what the charity worker said.
The volunteer, from the Mary Bass Charity, reportedly told youngsters to smash up their chocolate Santas so that they understood Christmas was really about God and Jesus, not just presents and sweets.
One mother of a four-year-old said: “My children said two children were asked to come to the front of the hall and smash chocolate Santas and reindeer with hammers to symbolise they were not what Christmas was all about.
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