D.A.R.E. Should Shrivel Up And Die
Police drop DARE in private schools (Or perhaps were kicked out)
"DECATUR - The Decatur Police Department has dropped its anti-drug education program for Decatur's private schools, citing funding and staffing constraints.The DARE program, which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, was dropped from Decatur public schools in recent years after the school district eliminated funding."
Perhaps the most hypocritical of all government programs should go the way of old Whip Inflation Now buttons. The war on drugs is complete bullshit and has been yet another way to seperate the american public from untold billions of dollars. Big Brother in the classroom is no way to approach drug use, and studies have shown that the DARE program, aside from wasting money, even encourages higher drug use in some areas:
"Proponents seem inclined to ignore scientific research findings. "In Houston, Texas, where a study showed a shocking 29% increase in drug usage and a 34% increase in tobacco usage among students participating in DARE, the police chief defended it by saying he would use the results to 'fine-tune the program to better serve the children.'" And he unashamedly promoted spending $3.7 million on DARE in the city."
But the biggest hypocrisy of all is that DARE is promoted by the biggest dope pusher on the planet, the US government. Keeping the fraudulant war on drugs going while importing the very drugs you make illegal is a great way to keep the prices up and pocket a tremendous amount of money.
posted by nolocontendere at 12:40 AM
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DARE is at the very least, a waste of time and resources. At the most, it's a frighteningly draconian system meant to brainwash our children with lies and misinformation, not to mention it turns children into snitches on their parents/family members/friends. All the while the real criminal activity is covered up. The real criminals being the government/mafia and other private criminal enterprises and their addictive involvement in/manipulation and creation of drug trafficking. It's all so blatantly brilliant and transparent at the same time, I'm always faced with deep frustration that parents and school and government officials and law enforcement keep on promoting its use.
As someone who used to work with kids, I've seen how they will believe anything that comes out of the mouth of a police officer. That in and of itself should not calm or impress parents. It should give them cause for concern and pause.
I've always loved the apocryphal story of when the DARE officer went to lecture a school room full of kids.
After scaring the shit out of them about the dire consequences of getting busted with pot, he passed a bag of joints around to show them what it looked like, telling them they'd be counted before anyone could leave.
When the bag made it back to the front of the room there were twice as many doobies in it than before.
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