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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care for the language of focusing on freshman, sophomore, etc. I think it is unnecessarily divisive.  Better to say 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th.

I worked at a high school that made this change and I think it is really positive. [/quote]  What's wrong with saying freshman, sophmore, etc?[/quote]

My understanding was that it is more divisive and promotes social distinctions, which the opposite of the inclusion that high schools want now.

It looks like a lot of colleges are getting rid of freshman for first year in order to be gender neutral. [/quote]

TY! Upthread I was mocked for using frosh in order to be gender neutral.  [/quote]

NP.  Yes but 1st year or 9th grader just sounds better than the antiquated frosh. I have never come across that word except in old books. I’m picturing you as a stuffy pearl-wearing and bob having (with extra hair spray) woman who belongs to a county club, has a lockjaw dialect, and looks askance at the mixed race (Asian and White) couple placed next to them at dinner. Did you attend Miss Porters?[/quote]

This made me laugh.  Grew up blue collar, went Ivy league for grad school, and am in a "mixed" marriage (which is why I neither attend nor patronize clubs).  [/quote]

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