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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Class of 1989 here.

I vividly remember being auctioned off in a “freshman slave day” back in 1984 or 1985. It was a fundraiser type of thing.

I think there’s a twist on this where seniors are the ones who are auctiones.

This was in Ohio back in the mid-1980s.

Wondering if it was common.

Yes! In Kansas. Otherwise a relatively liberal state, as Midwestern states go.

[Anonymous]

Class of ‘96. Baptist school in Virginia.

Yes it was called senior slave day. There was a whole spread in the yearbook each year on it. A fundraiser for the senior trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Class of ‘96. Baptist school in Virginia.

Yes it was called senior slave day. There was a whole spread in the yearbook each year on it. A fundraiser for the senior trip.

Ewww.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of it.

Southern Virginia

[Anonymous]

STA did this

[Anonymous]

OMG, what the hell? No we most certainly did not. College town in MI, 1988.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sports teams did. Class of ‘97. Upstate NY small town.

Same. Class of 92 Upstate NY.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand what everyone is talking about. Racism was banned in the 1960s.

[Anonymous]

Michigan, and NO!!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

No. Graduated in 95 in Prince William.

[Anonymous]

WTF NO! That is disgusting.Graduated NJ 91

[Anonymous]

Yes, we did, Class of 1985, at my all.white private high school.

[Anonymous]

In Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Horrifying!