Friends, I am disgusted and I am mobilizing.
A very good friend of mine just had a terrible experience with the Junior Federated Women's Club of Chester, VA. Her daughter was participating in their Cotillion program. She made the grievous error of questioning their use of public humiliation and bullying while claiming to be teaching manners to preteens. So the group disinvited her daugher, via cowardly letter left in their mailbox.
I think this is beyond the pale. Please, I know I don't have MANY readers or followers, but let's spread the word that we find it reprehensible that a group claiming to teach deportment would believe that bullying is an appropriate way to interact with preteen children.