Mrs Simpson's "Application" - Is this Woman for Real?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do it if you want to, discard it if you don't. Some people take their kids into a class for some polish and manners and others do not. It is not that meaningful.

I think the point being made is that this one establishment, in particular, seems to be a bit over the top. There are plenty of manners classes, dance instruction groups etc. in the Washington area that do not request applicants to detail a pedigree.

My question is, if they are oh-so-exclusive as they seem to want to portray, then WTH do they need to do a mass mailing to solicit participants? Shouldn't they who are in the know, who are born into the class and deemed from conception to be worthy, be invited to participate, while the rest of the unwashed masses are ignored?

But then people complained bitterly about not being invited, and want to know how you get an invite, blah blah blah. Being exclusive raised the ire of the unwashed masses, but when you invite the unwashed masses they object to the wording of the invitation. Lose-lose.

FWIW I filled out the application and left all those section blank since I did not debut and do not belong to any fancy clubs, yet my child made it through the screen. It's not that big a deal. As others have said, if you are interested in it fill out the firm. If you aren't then recycle it.

I don't think it's just the unwashed masses who object to the wording. Anyone living in the 21st century with any sense in their head would.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't make the mass mailing list..who should I complain to?

Mrs. Edmund Gordon Simpson, she of Chevy Chase, of course. Be sure to write your complaint in the third person formal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GO there around pick up time some night. Walk around back and you will see a bunch of these kids smoking dope and making out.

Good one! My kids might have stayed in it if they knew that were on the agenda. Never saw that but my kids stopped in 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GO there around pick up time some night. Walk around back and you will see a bunch of these kids smoking dope and making out.

Good one! My kids might have stayed in it if they knew that were on the agenda. Never saw that but my kids stopped in 8th grade.

OP here. You mean this continues on, beyond 8th grade? Sorry for my ignorance; clearly I am not to the manner born.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GO there around pick up time some night. Walk around back and you will see a bunch of these kids smoking dope and making out.

Good one! My kids might have stayed in it if they knew that were on the agenda. Never saw that but my kids stopped in 8th grade.

OP here. You mean this continues on, beyond 8th grade? Sorry for my ignorance; clearly I am not to the manner born.

Or even to the manor born, although those are both proper usages of the term.

The classes continue in 9th, and then there are annual events for 10th-12th graders revolving around the Christmas Dance and Christmas Ball. Girls who want to debut do of course continue, although I gather that this year there was not enough interest to have the Christmas Ball. Many kids stop in 7th or 8th, very few 9th graders. Mine both did it in 8th, but one had a lot of conflicts with other school/sport activities so went to maybe 1/2 the classes.

I really never saw the back of the hall pot smoking and there were always plenty of parents there well before pick up, including some who waited in the lounge the whole time (assume they lived too far away to get home and didn't want to sit at McDonald's for 2 hours) so I highly doubt this account.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OK, rarely am I at a loss for snark to post on DCUM but this one has even me perplexed. We, as parents of a cute little rising 4th grade DS, just got this thing in the mail. Truly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Was muth-a presented?" "If yes, please specify year and city?" (I was presented with a new cell phone that I won at a raffle in Baltimore in 2011; does that count??)

"Has your child had any previous Ballroom Dancing instruction?" (Oh, sure.. he started when he was two. Sic on the improper capitalization in this question, just FYI.)

"Please list Social Clubs" (All I can think of is the neighborhood Friday night wine-drinking group, but I doubt this is what she has in mind.)

"How long has the family lived in the Washington area?" (OMG, it says AREA! Do they let in people from Burke? What about Rockville?)

Please tell me that this is all a joke and that Mrs. Edmund Gordon Simpson, as she so elegantly signed the (poorly written) cover letter, is just a relic from about 1958?

You realize that this mockery reflects even more poorly on you than it casts disdain on Mrs. Simpson, right? You sound utterly without class, and I don't mean in a finishing school sense -- I mean in a common decency sense. If this wasn't for you, fine, great. Shred the application. But to put on the airs you did and try to ridicule it? Get over yourself.

I'm grateful beyond words to OP. I've never even bothered to open the Mrs. Simpson's mailings -- just pitched them directly into recycling. Who knew what I was missing? Hilarious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK, rarely am I at a loss for snark to post on DCUM but this one has even me perplexed. We, as parents of a cute little rising 4th grade DS, just got this thing in the mail. Truly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Was muth-a presented?" "If yes, please specify year and city?" (I was presented with a new cell phone that I won at a raffle in Baltimore in 2011; does that count??)

"Has your child had any previous Ballroom Dancing instruction?" (Oh, sure.. he started when he was two. Sic on the improper capitalization in this question, just FYI.)

"Please list Social Clubs" (All I can think of is the neighborhood Friday night wine-drinking group, but I doubt this is what she has in mind.)

"How long has the family lived in the Washington area?" (OMG, it says AREA! Do they let in people from Burke? What about Rockville?)

Please tell me that this is all a joke and that Mrs. Edmund Gordon Simpson, as she so elegantly signed the (poorly written) cover letter, is just a relic from about 1958?

You realize that this mockery reflects even more poorly on you than it casts disdain on Mrs. Simpson, right? You sound utterly without class, and I don't mean in a finishing school sense -- I mean in a common decency sense. If this wasn't for you, fine, great. Shred the application. But to put on the airs you did and try to ridicule it? Get over yourself.

I'm grateful beyond words to OP. I've never even bothered to open the Mrs. Simpson's mailings -- just pitched them directly into recycling. Who knew what I was missing? Hilarious!

It is hilarious, but it is also a little stunning to realize that she is serious. I don't know what rock I live under, but i am floored to see that people like this really exist in 2013.

[Anonymous]

when did you get your "application"?

[Anonymous]

Mine arrived sometime last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They say that you cannot buy class. But Mrs Simpson's really does prove that you can.

I have some very good friends who, though they had done extremely well financially, remained a little "rough around the edges". An example: at one luncheon I noticed one of them drinking from the finger bowl.

For people such as this, Mrs Simpson's provides a truly wonderful opportunity to ascend the social scale: if not for them then at least for their children. One cannot put a price on an opportunity like this. Whilst I love these friends dearly, and would do anything for them, their Coarseness has always created a certain distance between my husband and I and them.

Thanks to Mrs. Simpson's, our children will no longer know this same distance. Their six children have truly turned into lovely young adults there.

I think it you have the opportunity and the funds to do something like this, you should. Yes, it may result in your children looking down on you slightly as a result, but do we not all hope for our children to be better than ourselves? And the location is simply fabulous - nothing exudes class and taste like Potomac.

Hilarious!

[Anonymous]

And all this time, we thought it was just a bunch of dance classes for kids. Oh wait, it is. Methinks y'all protest too much. Taking it all waaay to seriously ladies. Settle down now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And all this time, we thought it was just a bunch of dance classes for kids. Oh wait, it is. Methinks y'all protest too much. Taking it all waaay to seriously ladies. Settle down now.

Actually strikes me as a bit of a humble brag on the part of the OP. Just wanting to let everyone know she got the invite!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And all this time, we thought it was just a bunch of dance classes for kids. Oh wait, it is. Methinks y'all protest too much. Taking it all waaay to seriously ladies. Settle down now.

Actually strikes me as a bit of a humble brag on the part of the OP. Just wanting to let everyone know she got the invite!

Didn't we already establish the fact that an invite is bogus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And all this time, we thought it was just a bunch of dance classes for kids. Oh wait, it is. Methinks y'all protest too much. Taking it all waaay to seriously ladies. Settle down now.

Actually strikes me as a bit of a humble brag on the part of the OP. Just wanting to let everyone know she got the invite!

Oh, boloney -- OP knows perfectly well that the invite goes to every kid from every private school directory that Mrs. Simpson gets her perfectly-manicured little mitts on. And no worries that anybody's taking too seriously; actually, this is called having fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And all this time, we thought it was just a bunch of dance classes for kids. Oh wait, it is. Methinks y'all protest too much. Taking it all waaay to seriously ladies. Settle down now.

Actually strikes me as a bit of a humble brag on the part of the OP. Just wanting to let everyone know she got the invite!

OP here. Oh, yes, aren't you all just SO IMPRESSED that we made the mass mailing list! Our family, and every other in about 10 zip codes.

One more question: does anyone's application ever actually get rejected from this thing? The letter states that there is a review committee actually takes time out of their lives to go over the applications. (Can't you just imagine what that group looks like?!)