Pubdate: Thu, 12 Oct 2006
Source: Sun St. Kitts and Nevis (Antigua)
Copyright: 2006 SUN Printing & Publishing LTD
Contact:  http://sunstkitts.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4295

OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF NEW DARE CURRICULUM COMING SOON

Although the new and revised Drug Awareness Resistance  Education 
(DARE) Curriculum has been implemented in the  primary and secondary 
schools around the Federation,  its official launch is not scheduled 
to take place  until later this month.

The revised curriculum was introduced to prospective  and existing 
DARE officers from St. Kitts/Nevis and  other countries of the OECS 
some two weeks ago. These  officers underwent two weeks of training 
in St. Kitts.

The new curriculum was to have been launched last  Thursday however, 
it has to be postponed and Local DARE  Officer Matthew McGuire 
explained that the launch  should be held in the near future.

"We would have liked to have a press conference but it  was not 
convenient and the media did not show up. So  we thought it best to 
forego that but hopefully during  the week of the 23rd, we, locally, 
will be officially  launching the new curriculum by way of a press conference."

The revised curriculum has been described as being  "somewhat better" 
than the previous one because the  DARE teachers play a more 
facilitative role whereas  with the previous curriculum, the DARE 
teacher provided  most of the information.

Also the revised curriculum, as opposed to the former,  is taught 
over a shorter period of time.
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MAP posted-by: Elaine