Community Throws Birthday Party For Boy After Classmates Said They Wouldn’t Come

SPOKANE, Wash. (CBS Local) — A 12-year-old boy in Washington got the surprise of a lifetime when nearly 100 people showed up to his first-ever birthday party. It was a surprise — because most of his new classmates declined to attend.
The boy and his mother had just recently moved into an apartment after living in shelters for years around Spokane to escape a dangerous domestic violence situation.
The boy, whose mother requested to keep their identities private, enrolled in a new scho