and HOW is it you want people to contact you? How do they do that, pp?

Can you contact the teacher and figure out how best to contact them through her/him?

Anonymous wrote:How are you supposed to contact them? I feel like if people opt out of the directory then they have to accept or don't want their kids invited.

As someone whose kids aren't listed in the directory due to domestic violence this makes me glad our school community is kinder than you.

Anonymous wrote:Unkind to exclude a handful of kids like that, regardless of cost. You are the one who chose the $30/each venue.

Would have been OK to invite maybe 8-9 of 23.

+1 the generic rule we follow is less than half the class or whole class. In this scenario I would invite all. Agree there are always some conflicts and kids who can't attend.

How are you supposed to contact them? I feel like if people opt out of the directory then they have to accept or don't want their kids invited.

Sounds good! We’ll extend the invite! Thanks for your perspectives!

5 is too few to not invite, especially for a kid who is new and still wanting to make friends.

pp again, yes you should invite the other 5. Because an invitation matters, it's a nice thing, even if the parents say no.

Unkind to exclude a handful of kids like that, regardless of cost. You are the one who chose the $30/each venue.

Would have been OK to invite maybe 8-9 of 23.

If it's a trampoline park ~ a lot of parents will decline.Trampolines are a greater than normal safety risk and, no, we don't care about the specifics.

Ugh, are*

OP here- about 17 of the kids aren’t boys, for reference- and I’d say about 12 of them are on the basketball teams

23 are in the whole class

Eh it would be the nice thing to do. How many are in the whole class?

So we recently moved to a new elementary school in our district. My son’s 8th birthday is coming up at a trampoline park. He wanted to invite his old friends (from his soccer team and a couple of the girls he was close to) his new basketball team friends from his current school and again a couple of extra friends he’s close to. FWIW he hasn’t hand a party in years so this is sort of a make up for the last 3 years kind of party.

Well, I don’t know the new class well, and a lot of kids aren’t in the class directory. The party is a week away and I’m looking at the class picture and seeing that we have now invited everyone but 5 kids. I feel terrible and would hate for people to feel excluded. At the same time it’s $30 per kid (we got a deal bc we were inviting so many kids for the first portion).

I need to extend the invite to these kids right? I also need t figure out their parents contact info ?