With Drug Abuse Resistance Education also known as DARE being taught in eighty percent of school districts that reaches 26 million children and another 10 million in 53 other countries. Most kids will be taught in Dare in or around the 5th grade. Police officers teach the program in hourly sessions over 17 weeks. Students are using lectures, workbook exercises, question and answer sessions, audio-visual materials and role playing. You would expect that kids who have completed the program who are now in or past college to not be smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and quite often smoking pot. Most have not been convinced and experts are there to back this up. The DARE program that legislators and parents praise really doesn’t work.
As stated in the National Review by age 18, about 55 percent of students have tried some illegal drug and 26 percent of college kids say the have in the last month. So obviously the Dare program has not work
“Dare works!” says Police Chief Joseph Santoro of Monrovia CA, who believes the war on drugs starts in the classroom. Also with support of parents and the community, can help cut down of the statistics of children who smoke, drink and do drugs. He explains in his article at the http://www.Dare.com that getting the message to come from a cop who has work the streets and knows how drugs and alcohol can destroy lives. That kids take the message seriously. Even thought he believes the Dare program works, it is not a “magic wand.” It will not make the drug problem disappear anywhere, but is more a important foundation on which to build drug prevention.
A survey was conducted in Ohio of 3,150 11th graders from 34 different schools. It sampled 11th graders who had completed dare in elementary school only, and a group of 11th graders who were involved at elementary level and either junior high Dare and/or senior level Dare.
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