Anonymous
Post 10/01/2023 20:24     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Horrifying!
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:21     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
In Virginia.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:21     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Yes, we did, Class of 1985, at my all.white private high school.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:19     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
WTF NO! That is disgusting.Graduated NJ 91
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:17     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
No. Graduated in 95 in Prince William.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:12     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
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
Post 09/30/2023 21:11     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Michigan, and NO!!
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:10     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
I don't understand what everyone is talking about. Racism was banned in the 1960s.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:09     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Anonymous wrote:Sports teams did. Class of ‘97. Upstate NY small town.


Same. Class of 92 Upstate NY.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 21:00     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
OMG, what the hell? No we most certainly did not. College town in MI, 1988.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 20:28     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
STA did this
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 19:08     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Never heard of it.

Southern Virginia
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2023 18:37     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
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
Post 09/30/2023 17:52     Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
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
Post 09/30/2023 17:49     Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
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.