Parent Says 11-Year-Old Daughter Didn't Invite 'Class Clown' to Her Halloween Party, and It Created Drama

"My daughter greatly dislikes her," the parent wrote in a Reddit post

A parent is wondering if they're going to be the villain or the hero this Halloween.

In a recent post on Reddit's "AmITheA------ "subreddit, they explained that their 11-year-old daughter was throwing a Halloween party and invited “most of the girls in her class” — but didn't want to include the "class clown."

"My daughter greatly dislikes her and made it clear she doesn’t wish to invite her. I am fine with that. She is in middle school and can pick the guest list," the parent said.

However, when the class clown's mother found out, she reached out to the Redditor and asked them to reconsider “to avoid making her [daughter] feel left out, especially since they are new to the school."

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"I told her that my daughter picked the guest list and she isn’t close to your daughter," the Redditor shared.

But, when the mom kept pressing the issue, the parent said they got more honest about why their daughter didn't want her there. "I told her the truth: that my daughter doesn’t like [her] daughter and finds her annoying, that she is the class clown and disruptive and my daughter doesn’t wish to deal with her outside of school," the parent wrote.

The mother called the Reddit poster an "a------" and then other parents began sharing their two cents, with some saying the parent was "in the right and others saying to invite her."

Like the rest of the parents at school, the commenters on the post are divided.

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"NTA. It's your daughter's party, and as you said, she can determine the guest list,” read one reply. “I get the other mom not wanting her new-to-that-school daughter [to feel] left out, but she [has to] understand that kids will pick their friends, too, and nobody is under any obligation to be invited to a birthday party.”

"Okay, but this girl is new,” countered another poster. “She hasn’t had much of a chance to make friends. This exclusion defines her as an outcast, whereas including her might have opened the door to making friends or at least being accepted.”

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Many commenters concluded that it came down to a numbers issue, explaining that if it really was just "most of the girls," but not absolutely everybody else, that could be okay, but the same wouldn't be true if there was only one classmate who wasn't there. Meanwhile, others wanted to know exactly what the parent meant by "class clown."

Still, others who had been in similar situations when they were kids shared that they absolutely knew when they had gotten an insincere invite to a party — and that didn't feel good either.

"I remember being invited to a party the day before - it was my whole friend group but the girl whose party it was didn't like me. The other friends convinced her to invite me. I remember being really excited to get the invite. But then just feeling awful at the party," read the reply. "It wasn't even that anyone was hostile to me, I had just [realized] that I wasn't wanted there...It probably made me feel worse than if I just hadn't been invited."

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