South Dakota high school rodeo club cancels annual 'slave auction' fundraiser

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8. I'm guessing it was 1971. (Memory gets rusty when ya gets old).

Anyways, it was probably my first or second year of teaching at the school..... N.J. public high school. School was 100% Lilly white... not a Black, Asian or Laltinx in the school - probably not the entire town. No gays either.

Seniors held a fund raiser, "Rent a slave for a day." Kids dressed in togas and winning (or losing) bids carried teachers' briefcases, cleaned blackboards and washed cars after school.


The Toga thing became quite popular. A couple of years later, seniors were holding parties as seniors will do. One kid decided to start a business furnishing props for senior parties. First party was a toga party because they were studying Julius Caesar.

Kid buys sheets, rope for belts and cuts 'em up. Of course, ya need the laurel wreath. So out into the woods he goes with a pair of clippers. By evening, he was blistered out and the party went on without togas and without the master of ceremonies.