The Fortuna Police Department announced that approximately 150 fifth-grade students will graduate from its Drug Abuse Resistance Education program today. The graduation ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Fortuna River Lodge, 1800 Riverwalk Drive.
The FPD teaches DARE curriculum to students at Toddy Thomas School and Fortuna Middle School. Over the past 10 weeks, an FPD news release stated, students have been learning information about various drugs, alcohol and violence by using role-playing and classroom exercises. The program is designed to not only teach youths how to say “no” to drugs, the release continued, but to also give them the self-confidence and the tools they need to do so.
Refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the one-hour ceremony.
For more information, phone School Resource Officer Andy Martin at 707-725-7550.
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Congradulations Fortuna,
Why don't you educate yourselves?
You have just created more drug users!
Really it isn't that hard to dig up a few facts and use a bit of common sense. I guess the educators are uneducated.
The popular Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program has consistently and without exception been found by scientific research to be ineffective and sometimes counterproductive -- that is, worse than doing nothing. That’s the conclusion of the US Department of Education (DOE), the US Surgeon General, the US General Accountability Office (GAO), and the American Academy of Sciences, among others. The Department of Education strictly prohibits the use of any of its funding to support DARE in any school.
A study showed a shocking 29% increase in drug usage and a 34% increase in tobacco usage among students participating in DARE.
Good Job Fortuna Schools. That's a good way to spend time and money for the kids.
Wake Up!
A little job security FPD?
Lets see 29% of 150 kids = 43.5 Kids
by how many years?
Ok,
Yep, their helping the kids all right.