Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 23:13     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Sports teams did. Class of ‘97. Upstate NY small town.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 23:11     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Gen X, California, absolutely not.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 23:11     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Class of 96, mine did, rural MD.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 23:02     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
My school did it. Class of 1984, independent school in Alabama.

Other things you wouldn’t find today, the local public high school had a smoking court for students to take a smoke break
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 23:00     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
What region?

I'm a bit younger, class of '96. Probably just a few years past Gen X, but I had older siblings too. Don't remember this ever being a thing, but our Catholic school's charity auction every year had a few people auction off 'work for a day' type things where a sophomore or junior would come to your house and do odd chores. Never referenced slaves, though.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:59     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Absolutely not. 1984 graduating class.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:59     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
I'm not even gen x - I am a millennial and this was a thing at my high school (2004-2008). It was seniors being auctioned off as a fundraiser for grad and they would be your slave for the day (driving you to school, carrying your books, buying lunch etc).
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:58     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Def had freshman “hazing” type activities. A theme, seniors could have you do whatever, a pep rally.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:58     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
No. And there are no circumstances in which anyone would have viewed this as a good idea.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:56     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
No
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:56     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Absolutely not.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:56     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Anonymous wrote:Holy shit, NO! That's disgusting.


Op here. I googled it and apparently it was a thing.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:55     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Holy shit, NO! That's disgusting.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:53     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
I graduated in 1987 and this was not a thing at my school. It sounds like something a frat would do.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:50     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
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.