On Friday, Starr King students discussed dating violence by revisiting the top headline story last year involving singer Chris Brown’s violent behavior towards his girlfriend of the time, Rihanna. The class all voiced their opinions about who was right and wrong, and we debated ways the situation could have been handled nonviolently. Students then made small cloth pouch amulets (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History [Pliny], meaning “an object that protects a person from trouble”) that can be worn around the neck. The students also used clay to make objects that they could keep in their amulets.
Imari and Nakina hold up their amulets
