Occasionally it happens that invitations for birthday parties are distributed at school and some boys or girls are excluded. Such exclusion causes a great deal of hurt for the uninvited child. Consequently, we ask that you not distribute these invitations unless all the same gender classmates (or perhaps the whole class) are invited. (This problem seems to occur in the younger grades more than the older ones. We understand the difficulty of having a large group of child(ren) at a birthday party. Likewise, we hope you understand the predicament the school faces in these situations. When possible, include all or be very sensitive how students are invited.) If parents choose to invite only a few child(ren), weekend phone calls are the best method.