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8-year-old accused of discrimination after failing to invite classmates to party

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An 8-year-old boy has been the subject of a heated debate in Sweden after failing to invite two classmates to his birthday party.

The boy's school in Lund has filed an official complaint with the Swedish Parliament arguing that if invitations are handed out on school premises no discrimination may take place. The boy had distributed invitations to his birthday party in class and when a teacher noticed that two students had been left out, all invitations were confiscated.

According to the boy's father, his son did not invite the two students because he had had an argument with one of them and had not been invited to the other's birthday party. "My son has taken it pretty hard," he told the newspaper Sydsvenskan.
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21 responses // 8-year-old accused of discrimination after failing to invite classmates to party

  • Just another symptom of a broken school system.
    electricsquiral
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  • why do we take something so irrelevant and make it a big deal and take the issues that actually matter into something irrelevant.
    kewal91
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  • Seriously...this is political correctness gone mad - oh yes...yet again!!

    I'm suprised his teacher wasn't also complaining at being "left out"!!

    Get over it - that's life - we ain't ALL gonna be invited to the party every time...it's a lesson well learnt in youth that stands you in good stead for later life.

    Bloody interfering left wing wooly jumpers/bleeding heart liberals. Jog on why don't you and leave the adults to run the show!!

    www.freyasykes.com
    FreyaS
  • I wonder what's the statute of limitation on suing some of my elementary and middle school classmates. There were a few parties I wasn't invited to and I'm a 20-something-year-old emotional cripple because of it. I need restitution! ...or some such nonsense like that.

    Anyway... You know what this reminds me of? It reminds me of when all the kids get a trophy (whether they win, lose, or just show up) when they participate in a sport or what have you just so they wouldn't feel left out. It seems like the best thing to do would teach kids that not everyone is a winner and not everyone is going to be invited to the party. If they believe that they will be liked by all they come across, invited to every party they hear of, and win everything they participate in, then that only makes reality that much difficult to handle.

    Long story short: This case is a bunch of BS and kids shouldn't be coddled to the point that it'll be detrimental to them.
    Nyx
    • Nyx
    • 3 months ago
  • hear hear Nyx. Our children's school has a "non competitive sports day" - who ever heard of such crap?? The headmistress insists on it despite the vast majority of parents at the school hating it and the fact that everytime our kids enter the interschool sports competitions locally they always loose as they always expect it to be fair and equal - like their sports day is - she's breeding the compeitive nature out of our kids and that's NOT setting them up for the real world!

    www.freyasykes.com
    FreyaS
  • I agree with all of you and I think the reason why this story even made it onto the international news is that it is so ridiculous! It makes a mockery of the actual discrimination and violence that does go on among children and teenagers these days ...
    JanaPokana
  • There were so many other ways to sort this out! It is almost ironic in that, the child, who did behave (well) childishly (which is to be expected) appears to be more mature than the adults around him. Couldn't the teacher have asked the boy one-on-one why the other two weren't invited? Was it absolutely necessary to scream "racist!" so immediately?
    Even, in the very unlikely scenario that there were "discriminatory" forces behind the act, everyone jumped to the conclusion that it was the 8-year-old's fault; not that of the society he was brought up in.
    PaintingM
  • In absolutely unrelated news, the main photo bothers me so much! I know I have seen it somewhere--like a high school science text book or something. Stock photography, at its best!
    PaintingM
  • Good points: Nyx, PaintingM.

    what a strange twist in the path of parental technique. Prove those kids who don't like you wrong. File a complaint. There can't be any viable reason my kid is unliked.

    on the other hand, eight is real young. why would this kid not like a fellow eight year old? impressionable nature much?

    the BBC article is real scarce with the true specifics.
    JudahEvan
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  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7481037.stm
    The politics of birthday parties??? How apt!
    JanaPokana
  • The problem here seems to be with the parents. It would be their responsibility to teach their child about compassion and what it feels like to be excluded. It is a moral situation, not an educational one.
    sueathome
  • This craziness is one serious toke of the line. A child should be able to invite whomever he or she wants to invite to a stupid birthday, no matter where the invitations are handed out. There were a lot of bullies and twits whom, growing up, I prefered not to spend five seconds of my precious time, even at the tender age of five or six. Right now, as the host of a lot of kiddie parties, there is a list of BAD HEATHENS I purposefully don't invite to kiddie gatherings for my neices and nephews because their broke, inconsiderate, rotten parents can't afford one thing their destructive phillistine Klingons break in my apartment.

    These hypersensitive parents of the most distasteful, worst mannered, destructive little vandals need to realize no one else is compelled to endure them but them. And, if other children don't want to play with little Damien, the Thornes need to do a better job of socializing their son of satan.
    96thdayofrage
  • That is crazy! The school district has gone to far. The parents have the right to invite or not invite whoever they want. Weither it be on or off school grounds.
    julcam
  • There are some things that school should be involved with. This is not one of them. :/
    anglcazn
  • absolutely absurd...
    unclepete
  • So stupid!!!

    My child has never invited everyone in her class or grade to her birthday parties. No one gets along with everyone so why would you want them at your party?


    And....this is a private matter and should not involve the school.
    shroomfairy
  • My question was if he gave them out at a recess or something, or during school. I think the teacher shouldn't have done anything, just call the parents later.

    It's not dicrimination if you don't like the person just because you got in a fight or weren't invited to their party.

    I feel bad for the kid. All he wanted was a birthday party.
    Yaemea

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