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[quote=Anonymous]My sons attend a neighborhood school. Our PTA has a parent directory that is optional. A lot of parents do not fill that out, so most of the teachers also have an optional Google document with parent/guardian email and cell phone information for class parties/playdates/etc. My son is in early elementary and invited the entire class to his party, plus his preschool friends. Since not all of the kids parents had their information public, we asked the teacher to send a flyer in the students' folders so that all the kids were invited.  We have the party at our house which is walkable, plus on the neighborhood bus route and live walking distance to the metro (our neighborhood is between two metro stops). My son had a great party and at circle time, most of the class talked about it. My son felt so sad when students looked disappointed they did not attend and he said he could tell they didn't think they were invited. The teacher said "it was so nice of you to invite everyone in the class. The party is very casual. It's backyard cookout where the entire family is invited, the more the merrier style. We have old school games like an obstacle course, sack race and pinata. There is music, dancing, cake. I feel terrible that these kids think they weren't invited and I had told my son not to discuss the party at school. Do you find where you live that parents who aren't in the directory don't attend? I'm assuming that they didn't want their info shared as they don't want to be included? How do you approach this?[/quote]

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