Drug (programs) Are Really Educational.........or not.
It's the end of an ERA!
Okay so does anyone else remember that ridiculous anti-drug program that went on in the early 90's? DARE? I don't even remember what it stood for except that it somehow related to getting kids off of drugs. Drugs Are Really Evil? Who knows. What I DO know, however, is that this giant waste of time and money was shoved into the public schools in California as if it was the best thing since sliced bread. My question was always "why are they telling us this?" I can understand if this program was saved for, say, middle schoolers, but I was indoctrinated into the Evils of Drugs back in FIRST GRADE. Hello, we were... what, seven? What seven-year-old in the Orange County Bubble of Opulence even knew what drugs were? I was more interested in chasing Matt So-and-So around the playground and then making my Barbies marry Ken.
Digression: Was it Billary Clinton who started this program or did she start some other drug-related-tax-wasting program? I remember another slogan: Hugs not Drugs - but I don't know if this was related. I still have a silly sticker that depicts two bears hugging each other (rather than snorting cocaine, I gather) that I got from some toystore stuck on my dresser. It's been on there for so long I don't think I could remove it even if I used Goo-Be-Gone.
Anyhoo, it turns out that DARE has continued to waste good taxpayer money for the better part of two decades. But today, on this eighth day of February in the year of our Lord 2008, two lovely young ladies came into our office trying to raise funds for the program because "it is being shut down due to lack of funds." Well hallelujah and a half, someone in the state of California finally realized how useless this program really is! Maybe it was the fact that.... nobody listened? Or possibly they realized that the very generation they were preaching to IS THE VERY ONE SHOOTING HEROIN AND POPPING E! Genius! I could have told them not to waste their time and money on this nonsense 15 years ago.