D.A.R.E

Officer Jaime Bressler of the Colchester Police Department visited our classroom on Friday morning for the first of four D.A.R.E. lessons. Here's a little info from the D.A.R.E. website (www.dare.com): 

D.A.R.E. IS SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION

EDUCATION AND MUCH MORE!

This year millions of school children around the world will benefit from D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the highly acclaimed program that gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence. D.A.R.E. was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles and has proven so successful that it is now being implemented in 75 percent of our nation's school districts and in more than 43 countries around the world. D.A.R.E. is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.

Friday's lesson was about the difference between a true 9-1-1 emergency and an incident that would not require a call to 9-1-1. Students had great questions and by the end of the lesson, they seemed to know which situations would merit a call to 9-1-1 and which would not. A worksheet was sent home Friday to show what was discussed.