Dear Pearl,

Your story caused quite a stir here.  It so happens that little Fanny is enrolled in an afterschool program called "Charity:  Overcoming a Financial Advantage" that is about just what you described at the Ives School.  The students are encouraged to try to think of poor people as being a bit like themselves.  They role play various supplicatory gestures and practice distributing canned goods amongst themselves.  All in all a very good grounding in real world conditions and so very nice of the school to think of it.  Oh - the classes are led by the charming Miss Goodrow.  She still remembers you, of course!

I Remain As Always, Your Devoted Miss Blue