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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the PP who can't dance -- unleash your inner -Ginger Rogers and take lessons with your DH; it's fun!

To the many PPs defending these activities -- your argument seems to be that it's no big deal because your kids didn't learn all that much.  If that's so, then why shell out all that money?  This is not a rhetorical question; I'm really curious about the reason.  Having been through the Bar/Bat Mitzvah year with my oldest, I can tell you that the kids do have fun even if they're not prepped in advance.  Wearing the boy-uniform of blazer, tie and khaki pants is not that complex, nor is learning how to do the Cotton-Eyed Joe or the Macarena.  As for the girls, there's obviously no issue about dressing up, and they've learned how to do all the line dances at sleepovers.  Finally, I hate to disillusion anyone, but middle schoolers and high schoolers don't ballroom dance anymore, so you don't have to worry that your kid will be the only one who can't do the box step.

These phony-boloney cotillions for the masses may not be as insidious as some here have suggested, but I still don't get why anyone would spend their money, their kid's time and their own time schlepping the kid to and from the event.  Even if you feel like one of the Beverly Hillbillies yourself, a "five-minute manners lesson" -- quoting a PP who defended Capital Cotillion -- is probably something you could manage yourself in the privacy of your own home.                   [/quote]

I'm the PP you're quoting.  I don't know why I need to justify my expense, but since everything is game on this board, okay:  My son likes to go actually.  Half the kids in his grade were going, and so I thought, "Okay, I'll take a look."  He liked it, and so we go.  In terms of it being hifalutin and elitist and encouraging some sort of superiority complex, I simply disagree.  Maybe you can question why I think it's sweet watching him dance or watching him rush to the cookie table to get his snack.  But I'm pretty secure in my choices and feel my heart and head are usually in the right place when it comes to him.  He hasn't suffered any trauma (not from Capital Cotillion, at least).  So, we'll do it until he tires of it.  Then it's off to some other phony-boloney activity, I guess.

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