2 kids rejected from a birthday party spark sweden parliment outcry

[Altron]

Birthday party snub sparks debate
Birthday cake
The case has sparked a debate in Sweden about civil liberties

An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.

The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.

The school, in Lund, southern Sweden, argues that if invitations are handed out on school premises then it must ensure there is no discrimination.

The boy's father has lodged a complaint with the parliamentary ombudsman.

He says the two children were left out because one did not invite his son to his own party and he had fallen out with the other one.

The boy handed out his birthday invitations during class-time and when the teacher spotted that two children had not received one the invitations were confiscated.

"My son has taken it pretty hard," the boy's father told the newspaper Sydsvenskan.

"No one has the right to confiscate someone's property in this way, it's like taking someone's post," he added.

A verdict on the matter is likely to be reached in September, in time for the next school year.


Link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7479758.stm

I can't imagine the 2 kids in high school when this stuff happens every other week :zaru

[spaZ]

wtf just because someone didn't get invited to his party LMFAO how retarded

[Xion]

Sweden is a very egalitarian society.

Everyone should be invited to everything. :C

lol no :lmao

[Aokiji]

This kid makes emos look badass.

[Kira Yamato]

Couldn't......stop.....laughing :rotfl
They crossed the lines....big time. Rejection is part of life.
I suppose if people were handing out valentines chocolates to people and neglected a couple unpopular kids, then they'd get confisca....

well, I pretty much answered my own question xD

[T4R0K]

HA-AH !

So retarded ! So now court and school can fporce you to invite people in YOUR OWN PRIVATE SPACE !? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!! FUCKING RETARDED !! If he didn't want to see some other kids mugs, it's his problem !

[batanga]

Sweden :lmao

[Dr. Boskov Krevorkian]

Wow, just... fucking wow.

Really?

Fuckdamn.

[Dionysus]

Why the hell would the school/teacher think it's a good idea for someone to go to a party by way of forced invitation? The real retribution comes from throwing a better party at the same time and inviting everyone as well.

With hookers.

[Azure Flame Kite]

Well I bet they all just feel like someone needs to be arrested now for all the attention this has gotten.

[Krory]

This is the kind of immature, irrational and utterly inane shit I'd expect to read happening in AMERICA. Not Sweden. Not Germany. Not Russia. Not Japan. Not China. Not even Mexico.

[Sexta Espada]

So, if some girl says I can't have sex with her, even though she's already having sex, I could say the same thing then yes?


I need plane tickets to Sweden.

[Tsukiyomi]

What the hell is that. You aren't required to invite someone to your home. By that logic if there was a stray hobo in the room he would have had to been given an invitation too.

[Byakuya]

Ridiculous.

[Krory]

What the hell is that. You aren't required to invite someone to your home. By that logic if there was a stray hobo in the room he would have had to been given an invitation too.

I always make it a point to make sure that any present hobos feel welcome to my humble abode, birthday party or not.

How else are you supposed to have hobo-stabbing parties?

[beads]

Birthday Parties.
Serious Business.

[narutosimpson]

Couldn't......stop.....laughing :rotfl
They crossed the lines....big time. Rejection is part of life.
I suppose if people were handing out valentines chocolates to people and neglected a couple unpopular kids, then they'd get confisca....

well, I pretty much answered my own question xD

well, u r pretty much on target, as i was getting towards the end of my public school education things like this (invitations, candies, etc) were made to be mandatory or completely barred, because of course, children were being ostracized by class, race, religion, and so on. We even had a dress code when i went to school so that poorer kids (which included me) wouldn't feel bad next to richer kids.

I think there's some legitimacy to the complaint.

[Kojiro Ganryu Sasaki]

What the fuck? This is absolutely retarded. I want to freaking move somewhere else.

[Vicious-chan]

Sweden should be pleased if this is the kinda shit that makes headlines as "problems" in their country lol.

[ninjaneko]

Sweden should be pleased if this is the kinda shit that makes headlines as "problems" in their country lol.
You gotta point there.


Nonetheless, :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

[Sexta Espada]

Sweden should be pleased if this is the kinda shit that makes headlines as "problems" in their country lol.
Yeah, it does says alot about the state of their country when they have the time to actually debate over something like this.

[Krory]

Sweden should be pleased if this is the kinda shit that makes headlines as "problems" in their country lol.

Not necessarily. Could just mean they're ignoring the bigger problems.

[Gunners]

Friggin stupid, further more if someone is in an area where he is not wanted he will just feel more like shit it's not like they will be nice to them for the hell of it.

[Light Artist]

Birthday party snub sparks debate
Birthday cake
The case has sparked a debate in Sweden about civil liberties

An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.

The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.

The school, in Lund, southern Sweden, argues that if invitations are handed out on school premises then it must ensure there is no discrimination.

The boy's father has lodged a complaint with the parliamentary ombudsman.

He says the two children were left out because one did not invite his son to his own party and he had fallen out with the other one.

The boy handed out his birthday invitations during class-time and when the teacher spotted that two children had not received one the invitations were confiscated.

"My son has taken it pretty hard," the boy's father told the newspaper Sydsvenskan.

"No one has the right to confiscate someone's property in this way, it's like taking someone's post," he added.

A verdict on the matter is likely to be reached in September, in time for the next school year.


That makes perfect sense.

Kid 1 throws a party but doesn't invite Kid 2 and thats ok, but when Kid 2 throws a party and doesn't invite Kid 1, that's just all kinds of awful discrimination.

And he's clearly not friends with the other kid anymore, so what's wrong with not inviting him? Apparantly something.

And apparantly both situations are worthy of being addressed by the Swedish parliament. :zaru


What a wonderful world we've become. :awesome

:facepalm

[ZeroBlack]

Link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7479758.stm

I can't imagine the 2 kids in high school when this stuff happens every other week :zaru

wow...loser
if he had any rep in that school he would've been invited :zaru

:facepalm
but isn't this a little extreme for this, it's only an 8 yr olds party =/

[iLurk]

I never get invited to parties.

Perhaps I should sue...?

[Krory]

Yes. Yes you should.

[Kojiro Ganryu Sasaki]

Not necessarily. Could just mean they're ignoring the bigger problems.

Well they DID throw 150000 euro on designing new "gender equality" road signs that feature both men AND women.

Hahahaha Xd

(yes i do want to move somewhere else)

[auto-matic]

Sweden is a very egalitarian society.

Everyone should be invited to everything. :C

lol no :lmao

DAMN no shit, didnt know they were like that but then again who cares

[SeventhDan]

An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.

The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.

LOL! This is typical of the European society being "so much more advanced"

[Dattebayo-chan]

I'm not surprised. This is typical for Sweden. In school, kids are usually adviced to hand out invitations to avoid this problem. We are so afraid of discrimination and everyone has rights, blah blah. Sometimes it just gets ridicilous. I can understand that children get upset when not getting invited, which is why it's better to invite privatley, but making such a fuss about it is ridicilous . . . :laugh

[Kameil]

:lmao :rotfl No fucking cake for the children's obese parents.

[Table]

Well I'm sure things will be better for those kids socially now! :sag

[Grrblt]

The problem isn't that he didn't invite everyone, the problem is that he didn't invite everyone when he handed out the invites during class.

And the article has some errors. There is no "outcry" and the partiament is not involved. There is a complaint filed with an ombudsman and one fucking article that never got a follow-up.

[avraell]

There are losers and winners in this world, people unwilling to accept that end up the former. When they are so close to perfection of the former as to whine about it, they should be lined up in front of a firing squad.

[pajamas]

Wow.. A little kid party. :sag

Fucking Sweden.

[Lycanthropy]

But the two kids who weren't invited, did they even want to go?

[squirrelnacht]

I remember back when I was eight, my response was generally: 'Why would I want to go to your party anyway?'

Kids these days need to remember that if anyone doesn't invite you to a party it's because they're jealous of your overall greatness.

Well they DID throw 150000 euro on designing new "gender equality" road signs that feature both men AND women.
See, this is why America is clearly superior. I'm not entirely sure we makeany of our signs with enough detail to denote gender. Except Deer Crossings, those are works of art.

[Light Artist]

But the two kids who weren't invited, did they even want to go?

I'd say they wouldn't, based on the content of the article

[Orochimaru-sama, Sannin]

Lol, Sweden.

[Simulacrum]

In Soviet Sweden, birthday has you.

We really need a soviet emoticon D:

[Lindsay]

lol Sweden. I'm sure those kids are happier now that the whole class can't go
/Sarcasm


:facepalm

[ryne11]

How much longer till America follows suit?

[Tsukiyomi]

How much longer till America follows suit?

Since when does America emulate sweden?

[Kyasurin Yakuto]

Umm.....:S

So they didn't get invited to a birthday party? Big deal, that kind of stuff always happens. I didn't get invited to a lot of birthday parties when I was little. People in my class were always having birthday parties and I wouldn't be invited. I never had many friends or anything though so it made sense.

Also, it doesn't sound like these 2 kids weren't invited based on race or something....it was totally normal reasons - one of the kids hadn't invited him when it had been his birthday and the other kid had a falling out with him. Those are perfectly logical reasons not to invite people. :/

[tinhamodic]

Interesting. Wonder what the parliament's decision will be.

Trivia tidbit: John Denver also held a birthday party and invited his class. No one came. Guess he got his revenge later.

[Ichiban-nin]

Not necessarily. Could just mean they're ignoring the bigger problems.

Sweden does have its problems but its still far ahead of other countries in various social policies.

[serger989]

Man the more I read crap like this, the more I see this generation of kids thinking they can have anything they want and take you to court for it. How the hell do they expect anyone to mature when they are babied from the entire world O_o

How I miss the days when I could say "Life is harsh, deal with it". (I'm obviously greatly over exaggerating things, but the point it, this kind of situation is retarded)

[Uchiha, Madara]

I mean seriously, just because he didn't invite two kids?
Oh wait did he invite everyone else? I mean I think he deserves the right to say who he wants to invite to the party or not. Its his party(if I am reading this article correctly).

[GrimaH]

The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights

I'd like to see exactly what rights have been violated, by rejecting a kid from someone else's birthday party.
I think that's what everybody who reads this wants to know.

[Nunally]

Doing this will probably get them invited to less parties. :lmao

[Hentai]

Dont this people have anything else to do with their time? :facepalm