Child's party.. Only invited the children who invited my child (she invited whole class last year)

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Due to covid restrictions bring lifted last year around the time of dc1s birthday & he had missed out on so much socially I invited all 31 in his class.. He has recieved 10 invited this year since his bday from his classmates.. Is it acceptable to just invite these 10? He's perfectly happy with this & it suits our budget better..

Its a general rule... for figuring out if reasonable or not

It also counts if theres 14 boys/ 16 girls, and you're inviting 10 boys, plus OP kid.. so only 4 boys are left out.... not nice!

YANBU only make an effort with those who bother with you. People on here commenting like they’re oblivious to ‘clicky’ mums groups at school

Bit of a figment of your imagination there.
I've never been in a clique at school, or anywhere else for that matter but I've still always left it to my dc to invite the children they would like at their birthday party.
If any of my dc wanted to invite a friend who either didn't have a party for any reason, or who had a celebration they could only invite a couple of people to, or, quite frankly, even if they had a party for 20 and my dc didn't get to go, that just never came into my thinking. If the birthday child wanted them to come, then they go an invitation (up to the number we had to limit it to).
Just the same as I have friends, as an adult, who have been invited to all of my 'Big 0 parties, that haven't had parties that I have ever been invited to. That's fine. I don't invite people to get invitations back, I invite people because I enjoy their company. It should be the same for dc.

I would ask your child who they play with and invite that group.
I'm one of those parents that doesn't do kids birthday parties, we do a family day. Can't cope with that many small people screaming and running about 😂

I think friendship groups can change over the course of the school year
I just give my kid a number hes allowed & he writes me a list

I think if my kid was excluded from a full class party id be pretty upset...but other than that i would just assume ppl have a limit on number of kids just like we had ourselves!