This meeting helps parents to discuss the DARE lessons at home with their children. The News articles made it sound like DARE does not include parents. Third, The News never mentioned that DARE has follow-up lessons in seventh and eighth grades, and for ninth and 10th graders. These two important components of DARE continue to reinforce the life skills taught in the fifth and sixth grade curriculum. Fourth, The News says money could be better spent elsewhere.
Many police departments use drug forfeiture money to fund the program.
This money comes from drug dealers, not taxpayers. DARE program supplies also are partially funded by fund-raising campaigns. Our Constitution has been abused and ignored under the banner of waging this battle. We have written what almost amounts to a blank check to those who are supposed to be fighting this war, and yet they never have enough. We can secure control over this most serious problem possibly by legalizing certain drugs, devoting a reasonable amount of money to prevention and rehabilitation and vastly reducing the incentive for illegal drug smuggling.