Yes, right here in DC at Georgetown Visitation. Where they used to OWN slaves. Class of 85.

Yes, in suburban Kansas City, KS side.

No. Class of 93 in DC.

I graduated from a conservative suburban HS in TX in 2003 and am struggling to remember anything like this occurring.

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

My first thought too.


No. Nothing like it. Atholton, 1985 (Columbia, MD)

OP here. I knew I had seen something like this on TV. Not quite the same thing but:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0695188/

Class of ‘88 in a small Illinois town. Hell NO! Never heard of this.

Southwest Virginia- no way.

Yes but it was seniors that were sports/club leaders auctioned off as a fundraiser. Pennsylvania suburban public. We also had a smoking lounge in school and mandatory pep rallies for football team and lots of racism, homophppbia and misogyny. And it was a top ranked school. Yuck.

I can’t figure out the link, but Google the Designing Women Bachelor Auction for a trip down memory lane.

This sounds familiar…I think I read about this in a YA ‘80s book.

Anonymous wrote:I once went on a sleepover, and the next day went to Quaker meeting with the family (this would have been in the '80's). Their meeting was having a fundraiser and the kids stood on a stage and an "auctioneer" described what they said they could do such as baby sit or mow your lawn and people bid on them.

It's mind boggling to me that people thought this was OK, and particularly in a denomination that had such a strong abolitionist presence and commitment to social justice. But that's what happened!

I’ve been to auctions for schools in present day where they auctioned off services including babysitting, portraits, photography, etc. is auctioning off services that have been donated wrong?

SW, extremely liberal and PC high school in the 1980s (the mind of school where Reagan was practically a dirty word) and we had a senior slave auction where the underclasssmen would bid on them. I think the cute guys would take off their shirts and flex and everything. There was a lot of innuendo about what they could do for you—carrying books and back rubs were definitely mentioned. I distinctly remember this being a thing on many TV shows as well—wasn’t there a Seinfeld episode where he was auctioned off? And maybe an LA Law episode? I think it was a pretty common charity thing in the &0s/. I guess it was using the term slave that is the objectionable lpart, but people used to joke about someone being a “sex slave” all the time so I thought that was the reference more than anything else. I guess the phrase sex slave is also inappropriate? To be honest, it’s not a phrase I’ve used in a number of decades…..

Yes! West coast of Florida. It was a big tradition until the mid 2000's.

I once went on a sleepover, and the next day went to Quaker meeting with the family (this would have been in the '80's). Their meeting was having a fundraiser and the kids stood on a stage and an "auctioneer" described what they said they could do such as baby sit or mow your lawn and people bid on them.

It's mind boggling to me that people thought this was OK, and particularly in a denomination that had such a strong abolitionist presence and commitment to social justice. But that's what happened!