A Lund, Sweden second-grader was utterly disappointed when his teacher decided to take away his birthday invitations from the whole class. The student handed out invitations before class began to all but two students, causing a bit of a stir. Apparently the school has an actual rule regarding the matter and the teacher felt it was best to mess up the party for everyone as opposed to having a couple of students feel left out. We think he was more jealous of not being invited instead of being opposed to the invitations being handed only to certain students but that’s just our opinion.

“When the teacher arrived, the whole class was upset,” said the school’s principal.
“Those who hadn’t been invited felt sad and left out. The teacher decided to collect all the invitations again, and the student then went and gathered up the cards himself.”

According to school regulations, the child had to either invite all the students, only the girls, only the boys, or not hand out invitations on school grounds. After hearing what happened, the boy’s father filed a complaint with the school district but not for the rule’s existence, but rather for the teacher’s response to the situation. We feel the rule makes sense but they should make the policy more clear to students and their families. In addition, the teacher should have just let it go at that point because no matter what, the students that weren’t invited were already aware they weren’t invited. Taking away everyone’s invitations was not going to help matters.

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