Anonymous wrote:Plan it on a long weekend - you will get a lot turning it down.

you'll get at least 5 who won't come on a holiday weekend, but I think you should feel free to invite all of one gender and not the whole class, as long as you do it by email/evite/paperless post and not distribute the invites in class. 28 kids is beyond the capacity of most people's homes and most party venues--so teacher's "rule" is not workable.

Plan it on a long weekend - you will get a lot turning it down.

If invitations are handed out at the school, the teacher gets some say. Otherwise, this is none of the school's business and I would not let your child's school in any way dictate what you do for social activities on your own time.

Mail or email the invitations, invite only those you want to invite, and don't let the school have anything to do with something they shouldn't be involved in in the first place. Ridiculous policy.

Ask your child who are his/ her good friends, ask teacher for their parents email and send invitations privately. Easy

Anonymous wrote:That's silly. Invite whoever you want (but don't exclude just a few kids or anything). If it's such a huge problem, mail invites or do e-vites, don't hand them out at school.

This.

That's silly. Invite whoever you want (but don't exclude just a few kids or anything). If it's such a huge problem, mail invites or do e-vites, don't hand them out at school.

Anonymous wrote:None of the teacher or school's business who you invite to a party.

I can see not allowing invites to be handed out at school unless the whole class is invited, but the school can't stipulate who you can invite to the party. Plenty of people can't fit 28 guests in their home or afford a giant party venue. Those kids can't have birthday parties?

None of the teacher or school's business who you invite to a party.

Anonymous wrote:There are 28 kids in the 2nd grade class -- can I set the time to have less kids attend? 28 is a lot of kids for most party venues that I have found.

At this age, would an early or late party cause some to decline to attend? If so, how early or late? Which day wuld have less kids? any other than Saturday?

I'd reach out to the friends you absolutely want to come. Days do matter, especially if parents work or kids have activities on Saturday. We cannot switch the day of our Saturday activity due to weekday activities so afternoon would be better for us. If you are a good friend, we'd miss it, but if it is just a classmate or someone my child doesn't like, we might not go. We generally have an activity on Saturday morning, others have it in the afternoon.

Teacher has no say over this, and I would tell them so.

This is absurd. Obviously you shouldn't exclude just a few kids, but how can the teacher regulate birthday parties like this? At our school, there are guidelines, but not rules.

Sunday at noon or Saturday 10am if you think lots of kids play soccer.

I did - they had issues in the past with allowing all boys or all girls and the teacher now requests all or none.

Do they mean all the boys or all the girls (depending on your child's gender)? You might want to check.

There are 28 kids in the 2nd grade class -- can I set the time to have less kids attend? 28 is a lot of kids for most party venues that I have found.

At this age, would an early or late party cause some to decline to attend? If so, how early or late? Which day wuld have less kids? any other than Saturday?