Students at St. John’s Sauers Lutheran School, Crothersville Elementary School and Medora STEM Academy were recognized in a graduation ceremony after recently completing the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.
D.A.R.E. is a comprehensive K-12 prevention education program taught in thousands of schools in America. This program is taught by law enforcement officers who teach students good decision-making skills that will help them lead safe and healthy lives, including avoiding drugs, alcohol, violence, bullying and internet safety, according to a news release from Jackson County Sheriff Rick Meyer.
The graduation started with a pizza party each day for the kids to celebrate their accomplishment. The students were then able to try the fatal vision goggles to give them a chance to experience the incoordination that intoxication causes.
The program finished with a graduation ceremony, and all students were presented with certificates and a D.A.R.E. graduation pin.
“We are extremely proud of our D.A.R.E. program and what it has become over the years,” Meyer wrote in the news release. “We would like to thank all the schools that participate in the 10-week program for fifth and sixth grade students. We believe the program has and will continue to make a difference in the lives of students who choose to engage in it.”
