Reply #23: As a teacher I have sat through many a DARE session [View All]

[TallahasseeGrannie]

and I have a slightly different take on it.

First of all, most of the kids think it is really cool. It is definitely a fifth grade rite of passage. And we teachers really get a good idea of just who is going to f*** up middle school by watching who slumps in their chair and laughs the whole time. (if we hadn't already figured it out.) The kids love the T-shirts. The Teachers like the opportunity to get a cup of coffee and then come back and watch the FINE DARE instructor turn around and write on the blackboard. It's awesome when they drop the marker.

I feel we owe the kids information. If they choose not to use it, then hey, survival of the fittest. That is how I approach it with my students and my own kids. I say that in this life not everyone should survive to breed. Taking drugs early pretty much narrows your opportunities there. That really seems to work.

I have never heard a DARE officer instruct a kid to narc on anyone. They are told to report drugs if they find them. Not necessarily if they find them in a shoebox in the back of Daddy's closet. That has never been implied.

Anyone saying it is a narc out your parents nazi program hasn't read the curriculum or attended any sessions.