Most of us who were in public schools in the past 10 years or so have been through the DARE anti-drug program.

My first DARE class was in fifth grade.
By then, we had already had it ingrained into our minds that all drugs are bad, and anyone who smokes cigarettes needs immediate help, especially if it's a family member.

But DARE put a new spin on things.
We learned, among other similar claims, that "Marijuana will make you fail school", "a bunch of people have jumped out of windows trying to fly while on LSD", and "In high school, you will be pressured into doing drugs because everyone else is doing them."

For the past month, I've been working on a report for English comparing "Go Ask Alice" to "Perks of Being a Wallflower" and needed drug use statistics for it.  I decided that the DARE website would probably have figures for it, so I looked up DARE in google.

Along with the numbers I needed, I found quite a bit of controversy surrounding the program.
While in the DARE classes, I figured that some of it was exaggerated to scare us, but I never realized how much it was actually twisted.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/29645.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
Gives a good overview of the controversy.

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they say sleep is the cousin of death
so my eyes are wide open:
'cause a dream is kin to your last breath

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DARE is full of SHIT.

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Sensical, Honest Information to Thrive by?

Post edited at 12:30 pm on May 7, 2008 by kk327

But since it was a police officer telling us, I figured it MUST be accurate.

Looking back, even though they lectured against peer pressure and crap, that's really what they did. They used a uniform to intimidate young kids.

ETA: I made the pledge because, of course, it's what EVERYONE ELSE was doing.
More peer pressure.

Post edited at 12:28 pm on May 7, 2008 by Illusions

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Quote: from STiiCKY iiCKY at 12:25 pm on May 7, 2008

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DARE is full of SHIT.  

 

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Sensical, Honest Information to Thrive by?

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I'm sorry that's the dare song i learned in 5th grade

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known as Mrs.Cook forever. 04-20-08

Whenever I see anything they're doing, I get a sudden urge to try meth.

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Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back.

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Most of us who were in public schools in the past 10 years or so blah blah blah know ur roll and shut ur mouth!

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I'm sorry, I assumed some people on here would like to have intelligent conversation other than "OMG LOL IDK IF HE LIKES MEEE?!!?!?"