Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holy shit, NO! That's disgusting.

Op here. I googled it and apparently it was a thing.

certainly not in SoCal.

- Class of '88.

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Anonymous wrote:STA did this

wtf

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Yes, class of '85. The football players volunteered to be auctioned off, and it was a tacit understanding that they'd be bought by the cheerleaders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holy shit, NO! That's disgusting.

Op here. I googled it and apparently it was a thing.

Are you a man or a woman?

What kind of things did the “slaves” do?

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my older cousin about this because I was curious. He graduated in '93 from a TX HS. He said it wasn't called a slave auction at his school, it was instead called a Stud Auction.

Male students from every grade were nominated by their classmates and the top X number were then auctioned off (usually the most popular and good looking guys were nominated). People in the community could bid on them and the money went to the school into each grade's fund that was then used on the big graduation trip once they were seniors.

He said "now that I think about, it was pretty fked up because most of the time it was 40 and 50 something women bidding on these buff teen boys to do odd jobs around the house for them."

He also said that by the time my other cousin, his younger sister, graduated from there in '97, the auction had stopped because there were too many instances of the unpopular kids being nominated as a joke where no one would bid on them.

I graduated from a HS in VA in '00 and we had a kissing booth once as a fund raiser.

Almost as bad. Sounds like a Southern thing

[Anonymous]

We also had something called Donkey Basketball where two teams played basketball while riding and leading donkeys around. It was a fundraiser. Apparently this was ended on the grounds of animal cruelty.

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I’m pretty sure we had this at my HS in NJ in the late 80’s/early 90s.

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No but I went to a private all girls school in NYS. My brother went to a private all boys school and did not do this either.

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What the actual F?
I went to a deep Southern school and there's no way in heck that we could ever get away with that. It was pounded into us how awful slavery was and how awful our fore-parents were from benefiting from slavery.

(even though only 1% of people owned slaves)

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X, California, absolutely not.

San Diego - 80s grad - my high school did this. It was the hot senior guys on auction. Made a lot of money!

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Anonymous wrote:We did not have a “slave day,” at our HS, but we had a “maid and butler” day where kids in “service clubs” auctioned themselves off to students of the opposite sex to carry their books, decorate their lockers, etc. It was a fundraiser.

This reminds me of the "Pimps and Hos" frat parties at UC Berkeley in the late 80s . . . .

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Affluent Philly burb, 90. We did.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X, California, absolutely not.

San Diego - 80s grad - my high school did this. It was the hot senior guys on auction. Made a lot of money!

You must've gone to a mostly white school. My school had a lot of black and brown kids. No way would they do such a thing.

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Ew. No. Not even in rural VA class of 1991

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dude F NO

small town HS in a rural northern state, almost no one who wasn't white