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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think there is anything wrong with some things being exclusive but many people that go there have told me that when she invites people she looks at their race. The race goes into consideration. That is very cruel and I dislike it.[/quote]

I've never heard any proof of this.  If you are going to make an accusation like this, you should be able to back it up![/quote]

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The class is invitation-only, as well. Class proprietress Virginia Simpson and a secret committee of parents choose students from among third-graders at private elementary schools such as the National Cathedral School, the Beauvoir School, the Potomac School, and the Norwood School.

Even among these elite pools, not everyone gets invited. Richard Lehfeldt, a power-company executive who now lives in Florida, recalls that he and his wife were baffled when 10 years ago, their daughter, then a third-grader at Potomac, was the only child in her class who didn't receive an invitation to join Simpson's class.

"We asked around and we figured out the dirty little secret," says Lehfeldt, who believes that his daughter was not invited because she is Jewish. Lehfeldt criticized Simpson's admission practices in a 1993 Washington Post article, which cited several cases where Jewish and nonwhite children were the only ones in their classes not invited. "My assumption was that people didn't know and once they knew, they would retreat," says Lehfeldt. "But what we found out was that they did know and did not want to retreat." [/quote]

Seriously, someone "believes" that his daughter was left out b/c of her religion?!?!  This is not proof of anything.  My DD has been left off of birthday party lists when other girls in her class are invited; does that mean that the birthday girl and parents are excluding her because we're Jewish?!?  If I went around spouting such nonsense, I would rightly sound like a raving lunatic.

Being left off a list doesn't necessarily mean you are being excluded because of your religion (or race, or anything else).  Maybe the people compiling the list just don't like you or don't like your kid.  Probably doesn't feel good; but not necessarily anything nefarious.[/quote]

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