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An eight-year old boy is at the center of a human rights complaint after “failing to invite” two of his classmates to a birthday party.

An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.

The boy’s school says he has violated the children’s rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.

The school, in Lund, southern Sweden, argues that if invitations are handed out on school premises then it must ensure there is no discrimination.

The boy’s father has lodged a complaint with the parliamentary ombudsman.

He says the two children were left out because one did not invite his son to his own party and he had fallen out with the other one.

You know, I don’t think I ever invited more than six or eight people from my class to any of my birthday parties, ever. Who knew that for all that time, I was committing a series of hate crimes?

This is perhaps a new height in absurdity on the part of those who would force politically correct conformity on the rest of us; the teacher, in particular, was way out of line. Okay, so it might be a bit petty not to invite someone to your party for bad reasons, and yes, “tit for tat” thinking is a human failing. But equally, nobody has a right to come to this kid’s party — as the host of the party, he (and his parents) are the ones who have the right to limit the number of guests. Or at least, they should be the ones who have that right.

I mean, what’s next. Will a Norwegian schoolchild be obligated to invite the class bully to a birthday party, so as not to violate the poor old meany’s rights?

Of course, as absurd as this development is, I think the revelation that one can get marks for writing “F**k off” on an exam in England is perhaps even more absurd.

The chief examiner, who is responsible for standards in exams taken by 780,000 candidates and for training for 3,000 examiners, told The Times: “It would be wicked to give it zero, because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for — like conveying some meaning and some spelling.”

And just think — the student got 7.5% on the test for such an answer — he’d have got 11% if he’d remembered to punctuate properly (e.g. put an exclamation mark at the end of the expletive).

Lord help ‘em.