Capital Cotillion for Beauvoir Son

[Anonymous]

Our DCPS public school has a free, semester-long class through Dancing Classrooms where these skills are taught. The kids complain about having to dance with each other all the time but they almost universally love it. It is completely inclusive, free, and really sweet. Not a bit of snobbery at all.

[Anonymous]

I was the non-wealthy middle school kid of a single parent living in a wealthy suburb. I convinced my mother to let me participate in a cotillion group as all the other kids were soot. I remember feeling awkward in my discount store dress and arriving in our very well-used second hand car. But here’s what I loved best - getting to wear high heels! The whole program was fairly ridiculous and snobby. It taught me zero social graces. But man did I love those shoes!

[Anonymous]

I'd love to get an update on the 2008 Beauvoir boy invited to Capital Cotillion.

Did he choose that one or Mrs. Simpson's? How did this effect his middle and high school years, or college acceptances by now?

[Anonymous]

They should teach them how to hold a small plate and a wine glass in one hand. That’s the best thing I got out of being in a sorority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:maybe its because the invites just went out- they are sent once a year

Perhaps many families feel that they can teach etiquette themselves, but since the purpose of good manners is to make others at ease in your company, if you lack some fine points that you'd like your child to learn, then these classes do the work for you.

Not everyone comes from affluence where dinner party etiquette in second nature and you wouldn't want your young adult child to offend the BF/GF's parents in college when invited home for Thanksgiving, etc... or Botch a job interview or lack confidence and have two L feet when it comes to a spin on the dance floor

Good manners are a Gift.

8 classes is about $400 and then your kid is JA++ proof, hopefully - not Bad

Good manners are taught at home. This is just outsourcing parenting.

Here’s the fun part! One of the tasks of parenting is to ensure that kids are comfortable and capable in social settings — preferably in a wide array of social settings and situations. This counts. And bonus points for parents who recognize that they can’t teach what they might not know, and that they might not know what they don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Some kids from my child’s class are signing up so I was looking at the website. I can’t get past this quote: “We prepare our students with social skills for the “elite experience” without promoting the elitist paradigm of the past.“

If my child really wanted to do it I would begrudgingly go along but no way I’m encouraging this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some kids from my child’s class are signing up so I was looking at the website. I can’t get past this quote: “We prepare our students with social skills for the “elite experience” without promoting the elitist paradigm of the past.“

If my child really wanted to do it I would begrudgingly go along but no way I’m encouraging this.

Capital Cotillion is the first choice for the Cathedral schools, Sidwell and other schools at least in our years because it was open to all students. Everyone in our grade received an invite at Beauvoir. It was just an activity and a fun thing to do. Kids would get dressed up and at Beauvoir at least all of the kids in the grade doing cotillion were invited to the pre dinner. It was just something to do and the kids seemed to like it for 3rd-6th. After 6th they didn't participate. By 7th and 8th middle school dances begin in a normal non covid year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some kids from my child’s class are signing up so I was looking at the website. I can’t get past this quote: “We prepare our students with social skills for the “elite experience” without promoting the elitist paradigm of the past.“

If my child really wanted to do it I would begrudgingly go along but no way I’m encouraging this.

Wow- that language made me LOL. Very snobby!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd love to get an update on the 2008 Beauvoir boy invited to Capital Cotillion.

Did he choose that one or Mrs. Simpson's? How did this effect his middle and high school years, or college acceptances by now?

Same!

[Anonymous]

Does Mrs. Simpson's still even exist? I did it as a kid but have zero clue if it is still operating at all. I just remember Halloween Mrs. Simpson would come out dressed as a witch wearing rollerskates LOL. I didn't learn anything that I retained while attending for the 3-4 years I did it for as I learned dance elsewhere. I just signed my kiddo up for CC because it was the only option that I could find online and there are a bunch of kids from her school doing it. Just very curious if Mrs. Simpson's is even still around at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Mrs. Simpson's still even exist? I did it as a kid but have zero clue if it is still operating at all. I just remember Halloween Mrs. Simpson would come out dressed as a witch wearing rollerskates LOL. I didn't learn anything that I retained while attending for the 3-4 years I did it for as I learned dance elsewhere. I just signed my kiddo up for CC because it was the only option that I could find online and there are a bunch of kids from her school doing it. Just very curious if Mrs. Simpson's is even still around at all.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/virginia-simpson-obituary?id=54582685

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does Mrs. Simpson's still even exist? I did it as a kid but have zero clue if it is still operating at all. I just remember Halloween Mrs. Simpson would come out dressed as a witch wearing rollerskates LOL. I didn't learn anything that I retained while attending for the 3-4 years I did it for as I learned dance elsewhere. I just signed my kiddo up for CC because it was the only option that I could find online and there are a bunch of kids from her school doing it. Just very curious if Mrs. Simpson's is even still around at all.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/virginia-simpson-obituary?id=54582685

End of an era