Pubdate: Thu, 18 Mar 2004
Source: News-Press (FL)
Copyright: 2004 The News-Press
Contact:  http://www.news-press.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1133
Author: Stuart Foreman
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/dare.htm (D.A.R.E.)

DARE TO STOP WASTE

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the Lee County School Board has
apparently seen fit to spend approximately $1 million on the D.A.R.E.
program. After all it isn't the school board's money, it's the taxpayers.

D.A.R.E. is a failed curriculum that the parent organization sold as
effective even in the face of numerous studies demonstrating its
ineffectiveness. Now the organization claims to have a new program, still
untested, and government entitles are still falling for it.

I think it's about time the Lee County School Board, along with local law
enforcement, became accountable and stopped such wasteful spending.

STUART FOREMAN

Fort Myers
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