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- TVarmy, on 04/09/2009, -0/+68Reminds me of one of my favorite bash.org quotes:
<DaZE> at my school.. the cop from DARE passed around 3 joints to show everyone... and he said "if i dont get all three of these back this schools getting locked down and everyones getting searched till i find it.." and like 30 minutes later when everyone got to see 'em and they got passed back the cop had 4 - inactive, on 04/09/2009, -0/+43DARE also has the problem that they tell you marijuana is so utterly horrible, but then later you come to find out that they pretty much just lied to your face. Does it not occur to them that if you lie to kids, when they find out the truth you're gonna lose all credibility?
- Sublex, on 04/09/2009, -1/+42Those smoking guys are genius.
- Smokeydabear, on 04/09/2009, -1/+32There was that kid in college who wore a D.A.R.E. tshirt at parties.
- TVarmy, on 04/09/2009, -0/+24Is there any real way to convince kids not to take drugs? The second they know they're forbidden or at the very least discouraged, kids will want to experiment all the more. I think the best the school system can do is explain the effects of drugs truthfully, and emphasize that people make their own decisions and face the consequences for those decisions. The concept of choice is important, as everyone likes a sense of self-determination and control.
- 4degrees, on 04/09/2009, -0/+22DARE should have been pitched as an economics lesson
Drugs Are Really Expensive. Teach a kid they could spend their hard earned money on a toy rather than some baking soda... - Origin415, on 04/09/2009, -0/+19Seriously, at least where I'm from, we've never heard of any of these drugs at 5th grade. Thanks for informing us about all the wonderful choices we have DARE!
- Fhwqhgads, on 04/09/2009, -10/+28Do you like fishsticks?
- SeanyMac, on 04/09/2009, -0/+15Parents: Do not throw your children head-first into a dumpster! Hand them safely over to firefighters and other professionals trained in the art of baby-raising... or, if you're in Nebraska, wait until they turn 17 to decide that you just don't want them anymore.
- floppytaco, on 04/09/2009, -0/+14Holy crap, Dare was such a waste of time and money. Looking back, they really did portray non-drug users as a minority, which would be about the dumbest way to convince someone that age not to do something.
- serif69, on 04/09/2009, -0/+13All I know is that my school district didn't participate in DARE, but we did have a police officer come around with that big yellow crate o' drugs. He described to all of us 6th graders exactly what they all were and what they did. Many of my classmates were coming up with harebrained schemes to get the case from him. Even though the drugs were sealed in (and probably fake), like a safe, once you have it in your possession, you can take all the time you need to crack it open. So yeah, drug resistance education didn't exactly work very well.
- TVarmy, on 04/09/2009, -0/+12D.A.R.E. is the sort of thing that feels good to support but doesn't really help that much. It's like a lot of laws and programs people like without evidence to back them up.
Sometimes I wonder if we need the government to set up a Non-Fiscal Economist General like Steven Levitt (Freakonomics guy) to frankly explain, without partisan bias, what is and is not working. - Yousty, on 04/09/2009, -1/+13What are you, a gay fish?
- inactive, on 04/09/2009, -0/+11Also those annoying Truth commercials that spread misinformation and propaganda about tobacco and marijuana.
- peteyb1313, on 04/09/2009, -1/+11you're weird
- bluepill2, on 04/09/2009, -2/+12"after the ancient story of Baby Moses being left in a wicker basket hidden in tall grass to keep him from being slain by the Israelites"
Man, I feel weird knowing that I know the author meant Egyptians. Does that make me a nerd? Should I get an anti-bullying wristband now? - Fhwqhgads, on 04/09/2009, -1/+10Do you like to put them in your mouth?
- Taiyoryu, on 04/09/2009, -0/+8"When are we going to figure out that even kids have ***** detectors?"
- bgres07, on 04/09/2009, -3/+11It's amazing how much money the government is wasting on D.A.R.E. Telling someone not to do drugs in 5th grade isn't going to stop them Sophomore, Junior year of high school from starting drinking and dabbling with other drugs. People who are going to be successful realize drugs can do some bad ***** and don't do them, and the people who are going nowhere in life are the ones who continue to do them.
- RumpleForeskin3, on 04/09/2009, -0/+8uh.. yeah
- VacantThoughts, on 04/09/2009, -0/+7Drugs
Are
Really
Exciting - Mister8, on 04/09/2009, -0/+7Uh, yeah. I guess...
- herrshuster, on 04/09/2009, -1/+7only if they're AS HARD AS *****!
- Origin415, on 04/09/2009, -0/+6Genius is an adjective as well, the original sentence is correct.
- XkenX87, on 04/09/2009, -0/+5IM NOT A GAY FISH.
"Kanye West" - herrshuster, on 04/09/2009, -0/+5oh come on...tourette's guy? anyone?
- lisaawesome, on 04/09/2009, -2/+7Several years ago I signed up for all the anti-smoking propaganda from Phillip Morris. I figured if I was paying for all that crap with my cigarette dollars I might as well get a copy. Now I have a sweet collection of anti-smoking brochures that I like to pull out and read while I have a cigarette. I actually hated smoking as a kid and thought it was nasty and I even liked the DARE class at school. Then I got past 10 years old and realized that I was being sold a pile of crap about cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol. There's a reason why they target elementary school kids. They are the only ones naive enough to buy the blatant lies.
- ShoujoKakumei, on 04/09/2009, -0/+4I want to know where I can get some of the weed that will make me melt into my couch like that girl in that one commercial. Or the kind that makes your dog talk to you. I've never been that high and I feel like my dealer's ripping me off. :(
- Fhwqhgads, on 04/09/2009, -0/+4You're a straight female fish.
- tyeddingston, on 04/09/2009, -0/+4Self pwn
- saranagati, on 04/10/2009, -0/+3it just occurred to me while reading your comment. i can't wait to see how crazy the commercials will be advertising weed once its finally legalized.
- charlie6969, on 04/09/2009, -2/+5dugg for DARE.
Hilarious article! - jrm71588, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3I thought we were the only school with an officer friendly...
- shermanthetank, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3You mean the drug dealer?
- MistrBrownstone, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3I remember when the cops brought the case o' drugs to our health class. There was this one kid sitting in the first row, right in front of the case, and he had a look on his face that was like a kid in the candy store. I'll never forget him saying, "I've done all those drugs". The look on the cop's face was priceless.
- fancywares319, on 04/09/2009, -2/+5FTA:
Facing a potentially drastic plunge in the amount of hot ass strolling the future streets of Los Angeles, the state of California decided to take action against childhood obesity
haha - onlysc, on 04/09/2009, -3/+6bono? ha!
- MattM0914, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3Dugg... though I think D.A.R.E. should have been higher up on the list. 'Hey, lets tell children extremely exaggerated lies about drugs so that when they become teenagers and experiment with drugs they'll realize we were lying and then just assume drugs aren't bad at all because we told them they are.'
But I guess they wouldn't be able to make millions off the drug war if they admitted the truth, now would they? - nepidae, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3Yeah, everyone knows that brains are better for curling.
- Pixelante, on 04/09/2009, -6/+9I'm totally against bullyism, but if I ever saw any kid wearing those blue plastic bands, I'd bust his skull open with a pickaxe and play volleyball with his brain.
- burgerkinghorn, on 09/02/2009, -0/+3Choice, consequences, responsibility? Not in this day and age I'm afraid.
- mparker21311, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2You can call them "Health Campaigns", I call it blind ambition with poor strategic planning.
- mimigins, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2I was in a classroom once fixing a computer when a policewoman was talking to the kids about bullying (related to #4 though in Canada). The kids were telling her terms that were used to describe types of bullying, like pantsing. So one of the kids says "swirlies!" and the cop stares at him. She tells him she's never heard of that, so he says what it is, and she spends the next ten minutes giving them ***** about their disturbed local practices and how terrible it is that they have their own form of bullying isolated to their classroom.
It was a really awkward presentation and the kids didn't seem so eager to answer her questions anymore. - agentsarahjane, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2The Safe haven law in nebraska was changed over 6 months ago. Sorry, you'll just have to wait until they're 19 to kick them out
- rinote, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Dugg for "Phillip Morris representatives would not comment on the findings, presumably because they were preoccupied with booze soaked celebrating and harvesting souls for the devil."
- djdingo, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2I never had the DARE program in my schools when I was a kid but I never understood the name "DARE". What, you dare me to take drugs? OK!
When I was a kid this is how you make someone do something stupid, you DARE them. Growing up I had one rule that I stuck to...I never, and I mean NEVER, turned down a "triple-dog dare".
Someone triple-dog dare me to do drugs, I dare ya! - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+2Drugs
Are
Really
Expensive - absurdist, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2D.A.R.E. - Drugs Are Really Excellent!
- stix213, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2They should have included the anti-weed commercials I keep seeing. Those commercials are the funniest things on TV - period. I'm fairly confident that each time one of those commercials airs that weed smoking increases by 1%.
- Suricou, on 04/09/2009, -1/+3How about this short speech:
"I am a police officer. My job is to find people who use drugs and arrest them. If you use drugs then, sooner or later, me or one of my coworkers will find out, and you will face at least a large fine and likely time in jail. Don't do drugs. I'll get you." -
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