<p>How do you guys celebrate Freshmen Friday? like when your kids are freshmen, do you beat them up because of this event?</p>
<p>I have never even heard of Freshman Friday. Then again, I am considered relatively nerdy and out of it, so I might just the in the small perentage of people who don't know what it is.</p>
<p>On Freshmen Friday,usually the first friday of the school year, the upperclassmen beat up all the freshmen..stuff in garbage cans, wedgies, punches, what not...I was wondering though.. if you have no upperclassmen in homeschool, will you beat up your kids to honor the holiday?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm really interested in what you all have to say. My high school gets really into it. Quite a few of the teachers participate. It's a tradition, and is almost as big as Snow Week.</p>
<p>That sounds like one bit of "socialization" we could skip!</p>
<p>You must be joking? I've never heard of this and I went to public schools. Actually, homeschoolers tend not to define themselves by grade levels--students may be in one level in one subject, and several other grade levels in other subjects, so they probably wouldn't say "I'm a 'freshman'."</p>
<p>That Freshman Friday sounds ridiculous and something that should be skipped.</p>
<p>As a homeschooler, I have always defined myself by what grade I am in, which was always based on my age, not the level of schoolwork I was doing. I was behind for a few years, but now I am ahead and doing college-level work. I am still a "senior," though.</p>
<p>I went to a public school too, and there was no Freshman Friday. Our local public high school doesn't observe it now either. It certainly doesn't sound like something homeschooled freshmen would choose for themselves. It doesn't even sound like something schooled freshmen would choose. I think a homeschooling family would sooner celebrate the accomplishment of achieving high school level, than try to re-create a humiliating public school ritual.</p>
<p>That's a shame, really it is...</p>
<p>No Initiation?</p>
<p>hahah never heard of it.
isn't the def. of 'freshman' more like 'first year of highschool' kind of thing instead of '9th grade'? how could you be 'fresh in the high school' if you are not in high school at all? :D</p>