They don't tell them that Santa Claus doesn't exist. They use age-appropriate mechanisms to teach them fact from fiction. They teach them to think critically, to question and not to accept.
There was an American student in this school who said, “In America, whenever I had doubts about something, my teachers told me no, that if it's reported in the newspapers, it must be true.” It's that ability not to accept everything at face value.
I am certain that Finland, Norway and Denmark would share these programs with us. That's something that this committee could recommend.