Another birthday invite question

[Anonymous]

DC wants to invite someone to their birthday party for whom I have no contact info. I was sending via evite because we are not inviting the whole class so I didn’t want DC taking paper invitations to hand out at school. I asked the room parent but apparently the parents of this child declined to have their email shared with the room parents. No other parents I asked seems to have their info either. The directory includes a mailing address but no phone number. I don’t want to leave this kid out as DC really wants to invite them but what do I do? Print a copy of the evite and ask DC to hand it to them discreetly? Mail to their street address?

[Anonymous]

If you have their mailing address, mail it to the kid.

[Anonymous]

You have their home address? If nearby, can you just drop it off in their mailbox, to be sure it gets there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have their mailing address, mail it to the kid.

This or have DC give a note to the child with your email and phone asking for their info. Sometimes the teacher will help make an introduction but that will depend on the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Mail it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have their mailing address, mail it to the kid.

This or have DC give a note to the child with your email and phone asking for their info. Sometimes the teacher will help make an introduction but that will depend on the teacher.

If the teacher does not provide that info to a room parent, they likely won’t to anyone else either so I wouldn’t waste their time. I would just mail or bring by the house OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mail it

This. If this is the only contact info they provided the school to publish, then this is how they wish to be contacted. Do not send anything with your child to give to theirs at school

[Anonymous]

I would ask the teacher for their info. If that doesn’t work ask the teacher to reach out to them and give them your info to context you ref a party invite.,

[Anonymous]

I would drop off in their mailbox.

[Anonymous]

I just dealt with this. I typed up a nice introductory letter with the date of the party and my contact information so I could send an evite. I sent it in to school with my kid to give to their friend to give to their parents.The parent emailed me the next day and was happy that we went to the effort!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would ask the teacher for their info. If that doesn’t work ask the teacher to reach out to them and give them your info to context you ref a party invite.,

It is most likely a violation of school district policy to divulge that information to anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would ask the teacher for their info. If that doesn’t work ask the teacher to reach out to them and give them your info to context you ref a party invite.,

Teacher can’t give it out if they didn’t. Waste of time.

Mail it or have your kid give a note with party details/your info.

[Anonymous]

YMMV on this one, but if I ran into this scenario, I would check the local community groups that I'm part of on Facebook to see if one of the parents was also a member. If they are, I would PM them.

Though a parent with no phone or email in the directory probably doesn't have this setting enabled or social media presence.

Absent that, I'd drop in in their mailbox and have my kid tell the other kid to check for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just dealt with this. I typed up a nice introductory letter with the date of the party and my contact information so I could send an evite. I sent it in to school with my kid to give to their friend to give to their parents.The parent emailed me the next day and was happy that we went to the effort!

This is what I did, too, with same result.