u/DurangDurang

I was looking through a yearbook and spotted two things my Gen Z son refuses to believe: TAG and the slave auction. Maybe it was a Texas thing, but both of these things were very active in my High School. Even some staff got involved. For those who don't know:

- TAG was The Assassination Game. (There's even a really bad movie based on it...). We were allowed to hunt each other down with NERF guns, "kill" your target, and take their credentials outside of school hours. Like, literally, before 8:30 a.m. and after 3 p.m., kids were shooting each other in the hallways. We had people break ankles trying to run downstairs to get away from assassins. Then there was... I kid you not:

- The Senior Slave Auction. Literally what it says. Seniors were auctioned off to other students who could then do whatever they wanted to their "slave" as long as (a) they made it to class and (b) it wasn't illegal. Proceeds subsidized the prom. Again, we had staff, teachers, you name it get involved. We were also a largely minority school, which made the whole slave auction just...bizarre.

This was a magnet school in Dallas, too - not some podunk town where you would expect this kind of thing.

John Oliver gave him a nice shout out tonight.