Hmm. OUr yougest member is by far our most porductive. He's in seventh grade. And as for freshman, they make up more than half the team, and get treated the same as everyone else.
And well last year on 226 we seemed to have an abundance of freshman (many of whom were also in band, as I was, so I saw them every morning also) and my standard greeting was "Morning Freshman." It wasn't mean though, it was just their nickname. It did however backfire this year (I am now a college freshman) and when I saw some of last years freshman for the first time this year and said hello with my usuall greeting, as I had done for the past year, except the reply I got was "Who are you to be talking, FRESHMAN." OH Well. I still slip up and call them freshman sometimes. They roll their eyes at me.
We did joke about the freshman being well, lower, but when it came to design, building, the really important stuff everyone is pretty much equal. Another Senior, A freshman, and I went to get lunch for the team on saturday, and while at Arby's we forgot the ketchup. We stopped at the McDonald's on the way back and made the freshman go in and ask for ketchup. She went in and told them "I'm the freshman and the seniors made me come get ketchup," and they gave her not only ketchup but two free pies.
Allison