WHEN Annie Winter could not find candy canes to put in her young daughter’s school Christmas cards she thought the kind message inside would make up for it.

Not once did she think the cards would end up in bins, ripped up by students in front of teary Lori, 9, because they didn’t have a gift inside.

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“My daughter is in Year 3 and she came home on Monday and told me that most of the cards she gave out were either thrown out or ripped up because they didn’t have candy canes in them,” Ms Winter told the Gold Coast Bulletin.

“She was really hurt and said ‘I don’t want to do it again Mum, I don’t want to’.”

The Coomera Rivers State School student, who has Asperger’s syndrome, is usually quite private but agreed to giving out the cards.

“For her to have that happen has really set something in her mind that this is what happens when I put myself out there,” said Ms Winter, who posted about her outrage on the Coomera Community Facebook page

Neither Coomera Rivers State School nor the Department of Education would comment on the incident.

Another mother, Tabetha Oliphant, said her son had also had some of his cards rejected, even though they were accompanied with chocolates.

“My son had elf chocolates stuck to his and he still had two cards rejected,” the Ormeau mother said. “He had handmade personal word searches in each card.

“It would be nice, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, to allow your children to graciously accept a card and read the message inside, for some put their hearts into them.”

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