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Bridgeburner
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Done with D.A.R.E.
#7501976 - 10/09/07 03:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.keepmecurrent.com/Education/story.cfm?storyID=43787
SANFORD (Oct 9, 2007): Reporting that the elementary school D.A.R.E. program has "lost its punch," Superintendent of Sanford Schools Jack Turcotte and Sanford Police Chief Thomas Connolly have proposed a curriculum change for Sanford schools that would integrate drug and alcohol education into health classes and would place an "Officer Friendly" in each of the schools.
Citing a 1998 report that showed the nationwide program was not performing as intended, Connolly said the police and school departments have held out hope for almost 10 years. But, he said, it's time to face the facts.
Turcotte explained that, as a "pull out program" consisting mainly of special presentations made by the D.A.R.E. officer, drug resistance education is not necessarily a part of everyday learning and, as a result, the message seems to lose its effect.
But, Turcotte said, he wants to capitalize on the relationships established between the schools and the police department through the D.A.R.E. program in the elementary schools and the school resource officers at the junior high and high school.
"The school resource officer program is extremely popular. The three officers have reduced violence, drug use and drugs in school and have brought peace and order to what can be a very hectic environment," Turcotte said. "They've become counselors – performing the function of a police officer, acting as a friend to kids and making connections between home and school."
The police chief said he hopes to assign officers to the elementary schools on a part-time volunteer basis to replace the D.A.R.E. officer who served in all the schools.
Long-time Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Officer Stephen Caron of the Sanford Police Department was reassigned to patrol on Oct. 1, Maj. Gordon Littlefield of the Sanford Police Department said.
"We need to have the D.A.R.E. officer back on the patrol force," Connolly told the town council Oct. 2. "He will fill a critical spot on patrol."
Caron, a 25-year-veteran of the Sanford Police Department who has been involved with the D.A.R.E. program for 19 years, said he is disappointed, but hopeful.
"I feel the program has been a great success," he said. He recalled how over the years he has had former students come back and tell him, "'I didn't listen to you in class and I ended up getting involved in some drugs, but then I thought back to the things you said, and you know, you were right.' They've put the lessons they learned into practice and are living drug free."
But, "The chief said he would give me an opportunity to be a part of the new program," said Caron.
While the school department and school committee work on the "actual curriculum piece," which is expected to "absorb drug and alcohol education into the health curriculum," Connolly said he hopes to rally volunteer officers to spend time at each elementary school.
"I think I have enough people who want to do it and will do a good job," he said. "The schools are going to benefit from this."
Turcotte explained that by establishing the so-called Officer Friendly program, kids will begin to see that officer in a different light. Durning the Officer Friendly program, an officer adopts one of the schools and when they're out driving around in their cruisers, they'll stop by when they see kids on the playground or they'll make it a point to drop in for lunch.
"When they see a cruiser pull into the parking lot, they won't say, 'Oh, the police are here,' they'll say, 'Hey, officer so-and-so is here, let's go talk to him,'" Turcotte said.
Connolly said he expects the officers will "be there to socialize with students at lunch and recess. Faculty and staff will have their number to call when needed. It's a different model with lots of interaction with children."
"The chief has a real interest in community policing," Turcotte said, "which means reach out and touch somebody, not reach out and cuff somebody. We're not abandoning the anti-drug message or the curriculum. The message is still there that drugs are bad and if you do it you're going to go to jail."
Eventually, Turcotte said, the Officer Friendly would co-teach the appropriate segment of the health curriculum, K-8, that deals with drugs and alcohol.
The D.A.R.E. program, which typically begins in October, has been suspended until a new model can be worked out by the school department.
The proposal to remodel the schools' drug and alcohol abuse prevention and education program was submitted to the school committee on Oct. 1. Action on the item was postponed until the committee's next meeting on Monday, Oct. 15, which will give the committee more time to consider the proposal and allow the superintendent to explore the effect the change would have on St. Thomas School.
A Closer Look
Project D.A.R.E. is a substance use prevention education program designed to equip elementary school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. The program, which was developed in 1983 as a cooperative effort by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District, uses uniformed law enforcement officers to teach a formal curriculum to students in a classroom setting.
The program, geared for students grades K-6, covers four major areas:
• Providing accurate information about tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
• Teaching students decision-making skills
• Showing students how to resist peer pressure
• Giving students ideas for alternatives to drug use
In Sanford, the program was presented to second-graders for 30 minutes once a week for four weeks starting in October; to fourth-graders for 35 minutes once a week for five weeks starting in December; and to sixth-graders 45 minutes once a week for 12 weeks beginning in January to the end of the school year.
Because substantial numbers of young people have reported initiating use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana before junior high school, the program targets elementary school children, who may lack sufficient social skills to resist peer pressure and say no to drugs. D.A.R.E. instructors do not use the scare tactics of traditional approaches that focus on the dangers of drug use. Instead, the instructors work with children to raise their self-esteem, to teach them how to make decisions on their own, and to help them identify positive alternatives to tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.
Source: Sanford Police Department Project D.A.R.E. Web site.
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boxcarguy07
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• Providing accurate information about tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
If by accurate, you mean blatantly inaccurate, then yes, yes we do.
• Teaching students decision-making skills
As long as the decision is the one we want you to make.
• Showing students how to resist peer pressure
But not resist our pressure.
• Giving students ideas for alternatives to drug use
iDoser anybody?
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moon_glue
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i thought D.A.R.E. was fun in elem. school. You got to have an hour once a week in class where you watched cartoons and did skits about drugs.
those same skits were great punchlines in highschool.
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FurrowedBrow
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HAHA, i am a dare graduate! In fact, I was arrested for possession of marijuana by my DARE officer. I wish i had the knowledge i do now back then. i would really let those cops have it.
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Alion



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Dare led alot of my friends, and myself to the drugs.
It basically gave us shit to think about, then do.
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Quake3
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I first got into drugs from my early DARE classes. They were telling us about LSD and I was shocked that these substances existed. Right then and there I concluded that Acid is something I need to look into.
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Re: Done with D.A.R.E. [Re: Alion]
#7503494 - 10/09/07 10:43 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sure cops act like they want to gain your trust. Thats why they start in elementary schools, but as soon as you get in trouble you realize they're not your friends at all
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drugsaregoodmmk
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Funny... None of you guys even get it huh? you think the point of DARE is to keep kids away from drugs. There is a good reason DARE seems to lead you guys to drugs... think about it.
But while i just expressed my strong opinion i have something to fight it. Or more so, the determing issue. Do drugs open up our mind and make us want to change things? Or do most people just get distracted with drugs particulary the people who have the brain steup to change things?
And then put yourselves in the governments shoes, look at the 60's... think they think its in the long run a big distraction, along with everything else in america like tv, etc.
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Yeah i first heard about acid and shit from there too, it made me more interested in drugs lol..
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Re: Done with D.A.R.E. [Re: Grogan]
#7503612 - 10/09/07 11:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i started doing drugs because of DARE. THANKS!
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drugsaregoodmmk
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Re: Done with D.A.R.E. [Re: Groomies]
#7503634 - 10/09/07 11:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yes, also kids think hmmmm sounds fun and they are lieng to me about it and same with my own parents... hmmmmm. So they turned our parents on us too in essense. America needs to stop, God people are dumbfucks.
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highdroponics
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i dont say no to a dare, im sorry. they dared me and i did it.
ok enough joking about that, anyway, i remember back in 5th grade the dare guy came in and tried to tell us that your first hit of crack has a very high chance to kill you, that his friend killed himself on LSD because he thought his arm was a banana or some shit, anda few other outrageous claims. i wish i could track down this officer and give him the story of my life, better yet i wish i woulda had the knowledge i do now back then, as was previously mentioned by FurrowedBrow, as i probably would have been able to debunk everything that came out of his mouth.
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a_guy_named_ai
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"officer friendly" ??
Help!
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StrandedVoyager
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I'm a D.A.R.E. Graduate and I berate moronic bitches who fund raise for D.A.R.E. outside of supermarkets where I'm just trying to buy some fucking cookies. The D.A.R.E. program is the biggest of time and money ever.
Great story about my interaction with the D.A.R.E. Program, I was in sixth grade and I got busted by the principal of the school for making jokes about drugs. So they call me mom in...
Principal: Mrs. Voyager, your son has been talking an awful a lot about drug lately and if he talks the talk he must walk the walk
Voyager's Mom: My son doesn't do drugs
Principal: Then if he doesn't do drugs where could he possibly be getting so much info on drugs.
Voyager's Mom: Well there's this thing called the D.A.R.E. Program...
I love my mom
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ROX
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I wish we had DARE in my country, and fund raising bitches before our supermarkets, so I could "talk" to them.
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Edited by ROX (10/10/07 05:46 AM)
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Bridgeburner
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Re: Done with D.A.R.E. [Re: ROX]
#7504277 - 10/10/07 05:50 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
ROX said: I wish we had DARE in my country, and fund raising bitches before our supermarkets, so I could "talk" to them.
same here.
in this country cops just burst into classrooms with dogs and that's it.
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