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From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: DARE Indoctrination Fails
Date: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 1:25 AM
http://www.detroitnews.com/EDITPAGE/0004/02/edit5/edit5.htm
THE DETROIT NEWS - April 2, 2000 - Editorials Opinions
Does anti-drug education program work?
DARE indoctrination fails to work
and ends up endangering families
By Diane Barnes
Everyone is rightly concerned about the dangers that
drugs pose to our children. However, Drug Abuse Resistance
Education (DARE) is demonstrably ineffective and an actual
danger to our families.
Many hours are spent indoctrinating children through
DARE -- valuable time and resources that should be used for
academics. Thanks to DARE and other useless, so-called self-
esteem programs, American 12th graders now consistently score
below average in math and science in international tests.
One of the most comprehensive studies from the University
of Kentucky tracks more than 1,000 Midwestern students who
participated in DARE in the sixth grade. The research published
last August in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
showed that there is no difference between those who received
DARE and those who did not in their use of cigarettes, alcohol,
marijuana or other drugs. The only difference was that those
who received the training had lower levels of self-esteem.
The Research Triangle Institute (RTI) was hired by the
Justice Department to do a statistical analysis of all DARE
research. RTI analyzed eight studies involving 9,500 children.
Their report says that DARE has a "limited to essentially
nonexistent effect" on drug use.
World-renowned psychologists Bill Coulson, Carl Rogers and
Abraham Maslow developed the theories that DARE was founded on.
Rogers and Maslow later admitted their theories were wrong and
off-base. Coulson concluded that the program is "rooted in
trash psychology" in a December 1998 interview in the Boulder
Weekly in Colorado.
The director of DARE America, Glenn Levant, argues that
the solution to the program's ineffectiveness is to spend even
more money on it. What else would he say?
The one thing DARE is undeniably good at is raising money.
News stories have reported that DARE uses lobbyists to compete
for its share of more than $500 million in federal money
targeted for drug and violence prevention. DARE claims the
program costs are less than $200 million annually, but other
credible estimates range as high as $700 million, considering
all the costs.
Ominously, DARE is also encouraging kids to spy and inform
on parents and friends. Children are asked to submit to DARE
police officers sensitive written questions that can easily
refer to the kids' homes. And you might be surprised by a
DARE lesson called "The Three R's: Recognize, Resist, Report,"
which encourages children to tell friends, teachers or police
if they find drugs at home.
DARE officials have denied that the program is set up to
bust parents, but incidents of parental arrests related to
DARE have been documented in Georgia, Colorado, Oklahoma,
Maryland and Maine.
If you ask kids about the anti-drug program, most of them
will tell you it is boring or an excuse to get out of class.
DARE's usual response to criticism is to dismiss the evidence
and rely on anecdotes. The good news is that school districts and
police departments in California, Colorado and Texas have seen
through this and have dumped the program.
We should do the same in Michigan. Parents must tell their
local district to reject the hype associated with this putative
drug education program. We should replace it with math, science
or other academic class work -- the kind of education we expect
our schools to provide and the kind of education they have so
tragically neglected. Leave the teaching of moral values to
parents.
Diane Barnes is a parent of three children who lives in the
East Detroit School District.
Copyright 2000, The Detroit News
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