I've just read this on BBC:


Birthday party snub sparks debate

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.





As we probably all know, Sweden abolished corporal punishment yonks ago, including in the home.

See what you get??

Who deserves a good spanking most; teacher,father,child, errant uninvited two classmates or the lot of them?


Steve M

Hi Steve,

No contest there, if a spanking is to be awarded it has to be the teacher who gets it for failing to exercise common sense and slavish adherence to political correctness. Provided of course that the teacher is young, female and the archetypal Swedish blonde!

Maybe the BBC could film the event and put a clip on the website. That might even persuade me to visit the site, despite the fact that:

It is using licence money ostensibly collected to fund some sadly lacking decent TV to compete unfairly with commercial information providers.

It is crippling the bandwidth currently available on the UK Internet backbone by encouraging people to download vast files to retrospectively view inferior TV programs they could perfectly well have recorded for themselves using conventional recording apparatus.

Because of the above ISP's are being required to pay more for their bandwidth which is inevitably going to lead to increased broadband costs for everyone, including those who, like me, don't even watch TV!

Ah, don't you just love a good rant on a wet Sunday afternoon!

Regards,

Another_Lurker