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Originally posted by Griff
Prediction: DARE is gonna reposition itself as a saftey program. In Elmira, NY the kid who brought guns and bombs to Southside High School was apprehended by the DARE officer who knew the kid from propagandizing him.
Is there an anti-DARE parents organization out there? I put my kids in parochial school, in part, because our Catholic school emphasizes parental responsibility and because it would reduce my kids contact with state coercion. I'd hate to see my school fall for this guff.
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Homeschool works because the parents are involved in the child's education. Voucher system works (on paper) because the statistics are distorted by the same condition. A parent not involved in the child's life is three times more likely to see a kid with social, legal, and grade problems.
Look at Allentown - fast becoming a suburb of NYC. What happens when a parent works 8 hours in NYC, an hour lunch, and 3.5 hours every day commuting? Humans only have 14 hours each day. Now that parent will blame the school system or demand DARE? Go figure. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management - the parents.
You can tell which schools have lower standards - less parents appear in Parent Teacher Night meetings. Even worse, why do politicans forget to mention any of this when they preach vouchers, school uniforms, more money, smaller class sizes, making teachers accountable, etc. Why? Because those lies and half truths get a politican elected. WE so often fail to indentify why the kid shot his schoolmates or built bombs. We fail to hold the parent - top management - responsible. Political sharks just feed on our denials.
Successful school programs, whether they be anti-drug or better education, required top management (parental) participation.
Traffic, the movie, only demonstrates that (and other) points that have been known longer than I existed. And yet we still try to solve a philophy problem with quick programs such as DARE - and a silly, wasteful War on Drugs.