STOCKHOLM: A heated debate is raging in the Swedish blogosphere after an eight-year-old boy's failure to invite two classmates to his birthday party resulted in a complaint filed with parliament.

Nearly 200 outraged comments was posted on the website of the local daily Sydsvenskan on Monday, just days after the paper reported about the unlikely string of events that followed the boy's decision to invite all of his classmates to his birthday party except two.

The policy at the boy's school in the southern town of Lund was that all children had to be invited to parties when their invitations were handed out in class.

When a teacher noticed that two children had been left out, she promptly confiscated all the invitations, according to Sydsvenskan.

The boy's father decided to file a complaint with the parliamentary ombudsman, insisting that his son's rights had been trampled on.

Most of the comments posted on Sydsvenskan's website appeared to take the father's side.

"For God's sake, let the children invite who they want!" one poster wrote.

The parliamentary ombudsman is scheduled to rule in the case on Sept 8.