Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| Class of '88 (PA). We had "Slave Day" during Homecoming week, when underclassmen would "buy" senior leaders and make them dress up funny. By the time I was a senior, the name had changed to "Indentured Servant" day. |
Anonymous
+1 I went to 2 high schools in different parts of the country. One was a public school and one was a well-known private here in the DMV. Neither school had anything like that. |
Anonymous
| No, and I never heard of this. Catholic high school on Long Island. |
Anonymous
| Yes. Class of '91 in Pennsylvania public high school (1200 kids). It was a student council fundraiser and seniors volunteered to be "sold" in a silent auction type arrangement. As others have written, mainly freshman would "buy" their services for a day which included things like carrying books, organizing their locker, etc. I remember it when I was a freshman (1988) but really have no memory of it in later years. |
Anonymous
|
FCPS HS, ‘87.
We did have a Valentine fundraiser for a “computer love match” and you’d fill out a questionnaire and then a week or two later get a dot matrix print-out of opposite sex matched classmates. I think I got a list of 25 matches. I remember that my HS BF wasn’t on the list! |
Anonymous
|
Class of '87. Rural NC.
NO This is a gross concept. My back roads high school didn't even have this. Go figure. |
Anonymous
| Absolutely not. CA 1991. |
Anonymous
| My Latin class had a toga party/slave auction. 1987 graduate, Northern New Jersey. It was a yearly thing. |
Anonymous
| Ffs no. |
Anonymous
| Hell no. Class of ‘84 in wealthy small town in NJ. |
Anonymous
| Same year, but HS in New York, and hell no, we never did anything that disgusting. Sounds like a southern/midwestern thing. |
Anonymous
No. Not a southern thing. |
Anonymous
And, yet, some of the East Coast respondents here said they had one. (I grew up in a diverse Midwestern Chicago suburb and it never would have flown either). I think it's more about the narrow locale of the schools and the particular people in your PTA/Student govt and whether they had heard of such an event (and whether they had any sort of consciousness to think better of it) rather than it being a specifically regional thing. There were a lot of disgusting, clueless things in the 80s and early 90s--whenever I have gone back to look at tv/movies wondering whether there are any to show my kids I'm struck by the clueless sexism/racism/homophobia of so many that I just didn't notice as a teen. |
Anonymous
| HS in Capitol City, 80's and we definitely did ..I fortunately never partook but it did happen., was a fundraiser..Also did a lot of hazing ..mainly for freshmen athletes, kidnapping them, making them do stupid stuff, wear stupid cloths,force alcohol. Had a smokers door as well. All school authorized we even had a teacher who married his student on her graduation day...20 years later he was still teaching at the same school. Absolutely gross to think back on what was acceptable back then or a blind eye turned by school admin. |
Anonymous
| Michigan mid 80s Catholic School. No way. |