Many studies have shown that the D.A.R.E. program is not only not making progress in lowering the rates of teen alcohol abuse, but that it is being counterproductive and causing a rise in juvenile drinking. Although the program makes their stance against teen drinking very clear to the students, students think that they can now "drink safely" since they are now aware of the dangers present with alcohol abuse. However, this is not the case. It is said that teen drinking is never safe. In addition, one teen claimed that he especially enjoyed the DARE program because he now knows they easiest and quickest ways to get himself drunk. This is causing many parents to believe that this program is only having a negative impact on children and is not worth the average $1 billion spent on the program each year. Studies still need to be done, but s it is likely that the program will soon be cut out completely.
No matter what programs are intended to help kids make the right choices, they will never listen. Kids have a mind of their own and don't care about the consequences of doing drugs. So I find this program to be useless. There will be the kids that do drugs and then the kids that feel no need to take part in that, so there is no way of stopping it. Good Job, your blog was organized as well as informative.
ReplyDeleteD.A.R.E used to be a good program but now are different times and they should switch things up.
ReplyDeletethis is interesting because i have had this program given to me in 5 grade and i thought it was dumb. now i have a reason to hate it haha
ReplyDeleteI think that the DARE company needs to rethink their methods. Clearly it's not working
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