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.
Let’s just castrate every little boy at the age of 5, and be done with it.
Go away. Please. For the love of god and all
that is right and holy, go away, you moron.
I’m on the floor LOL. Did Wylie Coyote ever stop the Roadrunner? Can mere mortals stop The Moss and all of his incarnations? He’s a moronic troll out on an extended joy ride, but, sadly he’s one of ours. I’m with ET on this, he’s no Muslim.
On topic, it’s a matter of time before there is a kiddie Gulag, a daycare for the children of wayward and careless parents, in Euroweenieland. Refresh my memory, but, wasn’t there an utterance in Britain by some Nanny state wag to identify criminals before birth using DNA?
What kind of state has an interest in a kid’s party? Only one with evil intentions.
“I wonder how long it will be before some “progressive” launches an action against a school girl for declining to go a school dance with a boy?”
The Supreme Court of Canada has already ruled a couple of times that “freedom of association does not include the right not to associate”. So there go all the laws against stalking and harassment.
BTW, Bertha Wilson was the imbecile judge who came up with this nonsense. Among other things.
Lori,
Well, I did have when they were that age. I have one in university (real science) and one in high school now.
I can’t detect any emotional or physical damage in them from not being invited to a party.
Perhaps you can send a few social engineers over to “educate” me and let my children know the damages they have suffered.
BTW: Don’t think that social services can take them away from me because of their ages (they can leave on their own) … but a they can still sue me!!!
I’m sure that I wasn’t invited to more than one party when I was a kid (and I didn’t invite kids to my parties also) … am I a victim or bully? Where is a sociology grad when you really need one? … Oh yeah, our government and teacher unions snapped them all up.
Let us not forget that Sweden is the same country where they are seriously considering -making- women wear more clothes so as not to inflame the men of a certain religious persuasion recently arrived upon their shores.
You know, to reduce the incidence of rape and all. Its become a problem, it seems.
The reason Sweden has such a high suicide rate is idiots like these in power, what hope does anyone have in that socialist utopia. Yes I have been to the dances and night-clubs and seen the young men passed out under the tables in Sweden, the women dance with each other, a sober mans utopia is all it is when he is the last man standing. Scandinavia has bought in to socialism and this is the results. Open a season on socialists and environmentalists, since they have had a season on the rest of us taxpayers for years.
Gees, I just love when people make up human rights as they go along. Just like Paul (Mr. Dithers) Martin saying that marriage is a human right and he knows a human right when he sees one.
I didn’t know that being like by everyone is a human right. Who would have thought.
I have to admit I agree with Lori somewhat. This whole incident is stupid and it is beyond ridiculous that it’s gone political, but I can see that it would make sense for the teacher to prevent a kid from handing out invitations in class. In that environment, when all the kids are present and watching, it’s not just about handing out invitations or not being invited to a party, but also social ostracism, which can be pretty hurtful to young children. Teachers shouldn’t allow that kind of crap to go on within classroom walls. The teacher should have taken the kid aside and told him to do the handout on his own time or during recess.
When I read stories like this, I honestly shake my head at the human race. I always like to think that I try to see the other side of any matter. But, honestly, no right-thinking person would have let this escalate to this point.
The fact that so many people in Sweden have allowed this matter to snowball boggles the mind.
It’s one thing to argue (as some have done here) that reasonable limits on non-school-related student activity in the classroom should be placed. It is, however, achieving Twilight-Zone-esque proportions of absurdity for a national government to involve itself in the affairs of a child’s birthday party.
Mind boggling.
Gee most people have already forgotten one kid did not invite him to his own party. Why was he not brought or hauled before this court of jesters?
Could it be he is a member of the “Religion of Peace”. Naw couldn’t be. No picture of the boys where given nor names. Since when is it the States business to tell parents who to even invite. Look at the two characters. One a tormenter, or bully the other who shunned him but gets a free pass. I want to know why this double standard!!!!
This is not a slow news day this is a legitimate abuse where talking about. What next, will be telling your own child your religion become a crime? The food they eat or the air they breath or even your right as an adult to have children? I hear people say this all the time. Yet we slaughter our youth in the millions. Drug boy’s almost stupid, than wonder about gangs.
When I was eight, I wasn’t invited to the birthday party of our mayor’s daughter, who was in my class.
Question; as that was over fifty years ago, is there a statute of limitations on hurt feelings?
Is the fact that at that time I considered girls kind of “yucky” a mitigating factor?
dmorris, of course there is no statute of limitations on hurt feeeeeelings. You are obviously the victim of a terrible, terrible injustice and even now the wheels of Canadian justice stand poised to grind into motion at a nod from your poor, victimized, shattered victim self.
Unnless, well… you’re not, um, White or anything, are you? Or like, you know, Christian?
Lori has made some very good points on this topic. It is a sensible policy in the early elementary grades to remove the the little psycho-dramas that would follow handing out birthday invitations to some members of the class while leaving others out. It is the reason that teachers in these grades develop “inclusive” Valentine’s Day procedures (everybody gets one, or each student gets to pick from a hat a number of classmates to receive a Valentine). Send your true love a good one through Canada Post or deliver it in person to the home of the little red-haired girl.
The problem, I think, is that schools never move beyond this type of artificial “inclusion” to really educate children about freedom of association. This would include both some discussion of good manners on one side and helping children understand, on the other, that people hang out with whom they please, and we’d all be better off we got used to it.
Lori didn’t make good points, she illustrates bad points.
Have any of you who think the state should be policing people’s feelings not understand that it’s the mindsets this crap engenders that is the origin of all leftardism??
If people learned good and early that the world doesn’t revolve around them, that you sometimes lose and this is normal, that you aren’t entitled to everything you want just because you want it, maybe we wouldn’t be in societal collapse and we wouldn’t have so many losers and other socialists.
Sorry for the run-on sentence. I was taught self-esteem instead of English…
Roseberry said: “The problem, I think, is that schools never move beyond this type of artificial “inclusion” to really educate children about freedom of association.”
My dear, you give them too much credit. The school curriculum is designed so you never, ever even hear about freedom of association. They don’t believe in freedom of association.
They believe in being a good team player. They believe in group dynamics and fitting in. They believe in equality of -outcomes-, not equality of -opportunity-.
This becomes more obvious as the kids get older because the teachers have to work harder and harder to skew things so everybody comes out the same. No more keeping score, no picking your own teams, everybody gets an award on awards day, etc.
Shut up, fit in, pass the ball, keep your head down and be a good little replaceable cog in the teaching factory. Mediocrity will be rewarded, excellence will be punished. This is the lesson.
Is there any reason anyone can think of for NOT allowing Islamofascists to bomb that loser country out of existence.
Is there any reason anyone can think of for NOT allowing Islamofascists to bomb that loser country out of existence.