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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been tracking this thread for sometime, and felt it time to throw in my own two cents. Mrs. Simpson's etiquette classes are a longstanding DC tradition, and though some may find them old-fashioned and elitist, the children who participate grow to be no more elitist or snobby than their counterparts who do not attend. My oldest daughter participated in Mrs. Simpson's classes when she was nine, and years later after completing her first year of college, had a deb ball at our club. Did we do this to be elitists? No, she participated, as will her younger sister, because it is a family tradition. Every one of the women in our family has been a Debutante-- and our youngest (only  4) asked when she was going to "get to dress like Barbie  and go to the fancy party" (my older daughter was certainly not pleased with being compared to Barbie- but it was cute nonetheless). My point is, my daughter doesn't have a superiority complex, and in some cases is immune to the fact that she comes from a family with money. She has college classmates whose parents throw money at them, and it shows in their actions and words. If you raise your children to be well-mannered, well versed in social graces, and well educated-- it will not matter what school they attended or extracurricular programs they were able to participate in. Money is not the source of class or social graces--it may help but is not the end all.[/quote]

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