One of the biggest wastes of US taxpayer's money as proven by their own studies they don't like to share and all external studies. "...but they make cute police cars so kids might like the police..."
Luckily for us taxpayers, they've now mostly renamed D.A.R.E. programs so they can still waste the same money under different agency names depending on your county and state. In their last gasps, either way.
My tax dollars get wasted on a lot of things I don't like. A lot! But with that said, at least this was not spent on abortion. And for me that's enough to make it ok.
D.A.R.E. cops don't actually have to do anything but ride around and try to get kids to like cops and give speeches at schools on occasion telling kids "drugs are bad, being a criminal is bad, being in jail is bad". These things should be self-aparent to your child unless it was born with water on the brain.
General Accounting Office (GAO) says the politically popular program has has "no statistically significant long-term effect on preventing youth illicit drug use." In addition, students who participate in D.A.R.E. demonstrate "no significant differences... [in] attitudes toward illicit drug use [or] resistance to peer pressure" compared to children who had not been exposed to the program.
This rigorous job doesn't keep them quite in the same shape as the tac-team guys. They get the doughnuts though, that's for sure. And they are funny as hell to watch qualify at the local range, if a bit dangerous in their weapons handling.
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D.A.R.E.
One of the biggest wastes of US taxpayer's money as proven by their own studies they don't like to share and all external studies. "...but they make cute police cars so kids might like the police..."
Luckily for us taxpayers, they've now mostly renamed D.A.R.E. programs so they can still waste the same money under different agency names depending on your county and state. In their last gasps, either way.
My tax dollars get wasted on a lot of things I don't like. A lot! But with that said, at least this was not spent on abortion. And for me that's enough to make it ok.
D.A.R.E. cops don't actually have to do anything but ride around and try to get kids to like cops and give speeches at schools on occasion telling kids "drugs are bad, being a criminal is bad, being in jail is bad". These things should be self-aparent to your child unless it was born with water on the brain.
General Accounting Office (GAO) says the politically popular program has has "no statistically significant long-term effect on preventing youth illicit drug use." In addition, students who participate in D.A.R.E. demonstrate "no significant differences... [in] attitudes toward illicit drug use [or] resistance to peer pressure" compared to children who had not been exposed to the program.
This rigorous job doesn't keep them quite in the same shape as the tac-team guys. They get the doughnuts though, that's for sure. And they are funny as hell to watch qualify at the local range, if a bit dangerous in their weapons handling.
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