The words “children’s rights” and “discrimination” take on new meaning:
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.
Doesn’t the Swedish Parliament have better things to do than forcing a couple eight-year-olds to make up? Maybe the answer is no now that I think about it. So perhaps the take away is, as well-adjusted Americans, it never took an act of Congress to secure our invitation to a classmate’s party.
