'I told him to require a $200 deposit from those kids': School forces parent to invite the whole class to his daughter's birthday, he maliciously complies to keep the problem kids away

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 6, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Organizing a kid's birthday party is no easy feat. You have to cater to the desires of your child while also enforcing limits and boundaries so as to not spoil them. You have to be respectful of your guests' experience while balancing that with the experience of the birthday kid. It's a lot to manage, and not everyone is up to the challenge.

This Redditor's coworker was planning a birthday party for his daughter, only to discover from the school that there was a new policy requiring parents to invite everyone in the class to birthday festivities to avoid conflicts. Unfortunately, this meant inviting problematic children that his daughter not only didn't like but who were also actively unfriendly to other kids. Thankfully, the Redditor stepped in to give their coworker an idea that would simultaneously comply with the rules but would also keep those problematic kids away.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this story about a boss's crazy reaction when he discovered his employee was applying to another job.

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    Want me to invite the entire class to a birthday party? Okay.
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    I'm posting this because it was my idea but I didn't do it.
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    My coworker has a daughter in sixth grade (elementary school in our school district) and she is kinda popular. He wanted to give her a good
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    birthday party because his other two daughters kinda stopped spending time with him in middle school and he kinda wanted a last hoorah. She
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    chose to do it at a roller skating rink and he went all out, renting the whole place out for the party.
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    She invited most of her classmates and some other friends and family.
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    After giving out invitations she got a letter to deliver to her dad and return signed. It said that students must invite all students in their class or none at all. This apparently is a school anti bg policy.
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    The problem is that some of the students are very problematic. One is a kid who has made threats about bringing g to school. The other
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    has behavior issues and once threw a chair at a group of students, sending two to the hospital for stitches.
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    There were some other students she wasn't close with but willing to invite in order to comply.
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    When he told me about this I asked, did you have a security deposit or something on the roller skating rink. He said it
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    was a $200 deposit for damages. I told him to require a $200 deposit from those kids if they want to come.
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    It worked, the kids obviously weren't going to pay a $200 deposit and the party went off without a hitch.
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    ETA: the invitations were emailed to the parents. One of the teachers overheard and that's why they made her invite everyone.
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    ETA2: for those saying he should have ignored the school's rules, the did say they could "withhold privileges" if he didn't comply. There is an end
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    of year trip for sixth graders that is kinda a big deal and they didn't want to risk that.
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    GirlSti... • 22h ago. Good job. But I would also tell the school that they have no control over who gets to hang out after school hours.
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    Alexis... 22h ago. When I was in school the policy was not "invite all or none", the policy was "if
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    you hand out invitations IN SCHOOL they must go to all of the students, or all of the boys/girls", to
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    avoid the situation where someone ostentatiously gives an invite to everyone but the unpopular kid.
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    And I think that's reasonable. If you want to have a private party, do the inviting privately.
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