Kelly Li's AITA Story

AITA for telling my son’s teacher that I don’t have enough room for a birthday party at my home along with a bunch of others reasons why I can't invite them all?
Hello, my name is Kelly Li and this is my first time posting here.

Now my son’s birthday and it was a Godzilla-themed party where we got to watch Godzilla: King of the Monsters a week ago in April 12th and he invited a few friends including Xiu-mei, who is the daughter of my friend Lei.

My son’s main teacher, who overheard my son’s birthday party called me and said I needed to invite all of his classmates.

The main issue was I only brought enough goody bags for 7 kids including Xiu-mei and James, two, my home isn’t big enough, three, they are some classmates I would rather not invite to my house like the one who got suspended for strangling my son so badly he needed a hospital appointment

She said it was a rule that if there’s a birthday party, then all of the classmates need to be invited, which me and Lei think is a stupid as heck rule.

I told her if she gets to decide who comes to my son’s birthday party, then I get to decide who comes over to Thanksgiving dinner.

She then tried to tell me to change it to a park, the problem is it’s supposed to storm that day and I’m not taking any chances of any of them getting struck by lightning.

Lei has actually had this before and despite there being three young children living there, they are serious risks in his home due to one of his colleagues working with cyanide.

The teacher said the reason is because it causes ‘hurt feelings’ and is not fair on the other children and that this was her ‘rule’

Now, I was getting a little annoyed about who this teacher thinks she is telling me it’s hurtful to the other children, who James either rarely knows or has a terrible relationship with, That’s like inviting your worst enemy to your party.

“I’m sure you get to act this way to children because you get to teach them, but that doesn’t work on parents, I am not inviting an entire classroom of children to a birthday party.”

Now, The teacher when I picked my son up gave me a glare and admonished me for being ‘unfair’ to whose who didn’t get an invitation,

I told her that it’s my son’s choice and not hers who he invites.

Comments
"NTA. Why is it that these teachers in these AITA stories never understand that things just can't go their way?" - Liam84