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[quote=Anonymous]All right, this is going to sound ignorant, but it's just my way of emotionally venting.

The third grade capital cotillion thing is the stupidest, STUPIDEST idea ever.  Why the heck are we trying to turn these kids into mini grown-ups at the age of 8 or 9?  It makes me think if NCS didn't have cutesy uniforms and STA didn't have all their boys wearing spiffy coats and ties that applications would drop at least 10-20%.  Such superficiality.

I know all sorts of people will disagree with me (obviously), so I'll just put on my flame-retardent suit.  But really... I can't imagine many things more hifalutin, excessive, and "developmentally inappropriate"(to use a Beauvoir term) than third grade cotillion.  Only in Washington.  I think some of these parents only enroll their kids so they can enjoy the parent social hour at Guapo's or wherever their particular grade's group does the pre-dinner.  (Sometimes I wonder if that kind of calculus isn't even sometimes a part of where parents choose to enroll their students.)  At least it's not as bad as Mrs. Simpson's.  That begins to border on really scary.

If you have a Beauvoir third grader, you should try to see if you can get an honest answer out of your DC's teacher about what she/he thinks about cotillion.  My DC's could barely refrain from cracking up when I mentioned the idea.  Though, the English one would probably think it's a "fine idea!" ;)

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