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Ignacio Rotary D.A.R.E.
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| Part of the reason D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance
Education) works so well is because it is a collaborative effort between
your police department, your school, parents, and community leaders.
D.A.R.E. works because it surrounds children with support and encouragement
from all sides. D.A.R.E. teaches kids how to recognize and resist the direct and subtle pressures that influence them to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs. And since between 70% and 90% of all crime is drug related, it is absolutely vital that we reach the children of America before it is too late. The D.A.R.E. program is usually introduced to children in the 5th or 6th grade. A specially trained officer comes into your school one day a week for seventeen weeks and teaches the children. And, to make it easy on you, we've designed the D.A.R.E. curriculum to integrate easily into your other lessons. Student participation in the D.A.R.E. program may be incorporated as an integral part of the school's curriculum in health, science, social studies, language arts, or other subjects. It is important that you, as the classroom teacher, maintain a supportive role in classroom management while the officer is teaching. And, finally, you should incorporate D.A.R.E. program participation by students as a fundamental part of your students' final evaluation. |
