Street Law Class Hosts Mock Weddings
Huntington High School's Street Law class was the scene for three recent mock weddings. The half-year business department elective course hosted the nuptials to help illustrate the various legal issues involved in matrimonial law, which is included in the family law segment of the curriculum.
Teacher Suzie Biagi presided as students read their vows, discussed the legalities of spoken words, encountered audience objections and addressed various other legal aspects of the ceremony.
Street Law is a course that explores many of "life's issues," said Mrs. Biagi. By placing students in a "living situation," if only for ten-minutes, the business teacher said she attempts to engage and excite the teenagers about the curriculum.
"Chances are that most of these students will marry and have a family in the future and now they will have a better understanding of the seriousness of the legal contracts that they enter into," Mrs. Biagi said. The course also explored the issues of divorce, custody, child support, adoption and foster care.
In addition to these topics, the Street Law I curriculum includes such areas as civil rights and liberties, discrimination, employment and housing law. Street Law II, a second one semester, half-credit course, focuses on juvenile justice, probate and consumer law and torts.
For more information contact Mrs. Biagi at sbiagi@hufsd.edu.