say no to dare?

Question

i don't want my child to go to DARE education at his local school because i believe that it gets him to comfortable with the police. I feel like if he gets to cofortable with the police he may be quicker to give information to the police later in life.
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5 hours ago
I am not a criminal. i dont want my kid to give a statement to the police if he gets arrested and i have heard numerous stories where the police bring in that childs dare officer to get a statement. I believe that i need to do this to protect my childs constitutional rights.
first question am I wrong for wanting this 2nd question how do i ask for this?

Answer 1

All schools (unless they have changed the rulings over the years), so check with your school, have an opt out option for parents who do not want their children to participate in any program that they find objectionable.

My husband who has previously worked with law enforcement for many years, does not agree with most prevention programs either, we feel they give kids too much information at a time in their life where they need not be bothered with all that yet.

Second if these programs really worked we should have seen a large decrease in all that we have been trying to "prevent", this however does not seem to be so, since there are more "prevention" programs in and out of the schools these day's than there are basic educational programs.

It is up to the parents to teach their children about right, wrong, and respect for authority.
For children to have respect for authority they should have a "healthy" dose of fear of those who enforce the law.

I know I am going to take some criticism for this, but I think Dare is a good PR program for the police departments, but it has little, or no impact on the reduction of drug, and alcohol use among young people.
For more on this go to;
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/youthissues/1059145293.html

Answer 2

I agree with the answer you gave in your questions comments.
We have become a police nation, where the privetized prison systems are now industrailized and politicly influanced.
In an effort to dupe the general public into beleaving DARE is helping their community, DARE is nothing more than brainwashing are youth to conform, obey, and snitch. This is done to increase prison population for more workers in the prison industry.
No dout, their are some justified arrests being made, but for the most part the system has failed us and is an exorbanant drain on our tax dollars.
As of december 2006, 2,193,798 prisoners were held in Federal or State prisons or in local jails -- an increase of 2.7% from yearend 2004, less than the average annual growth of 3.3% since yearend 1995.
-- there were an estimated 491 prison inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents -- up from 411 at yearend 1995.
-- the number of women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal prison authorities increased 2.6% from yearend 2004, reaching 107,518 and the number of men rose 1.9%, totaling 1,418,406.
At yearend 2005 there were 3,145 black male sentenced prison inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,244 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 471 white male inmates per 100,000 white males.


In 2003 there were an estimated 650,400 State prisoners serving time for a violent offense. State prisons also held an estimated 262,000 property offenders and 250,900 drug offenders.
Many of these so called "State Prisons" dont even belong to the State. They are privetly funded for profet orginizations. With an average cost of $47,000 per inmate, per year, It's costing taxpayers over a billion dollars each year to house these people.
Find out what day DARE is scheduled to visit your childs class and just keep him or her out for a sick day.
It's not just about DARE, It's about many other fundimental questions that are related to our becoming a police state.
WE SHOULD BE ASKING>>>What if the fundamental Rights, Liberties and Freedoms of Americans were being curtailed because the United States was becoming a police State? What if the United States was becoming a Police State because it was engaged in a War on Terror?

What if the War on Terror was a result of hostilities directed towards the United States because the United States was annually giving billions of dollars of its tax revenues to the Government of Israel, who was using that money to pay its military to seize and occupy territories belonging to Palestinians -- a people of a different ethnicity and religion -- and to support the tyranny of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing against the Palestinians?

You do need to protect your childs rights, who else will?
The rabbit hole goes much futher than DARE, if you dare to look.

Answer 3

Keep in mind whatever your child says without a parent or lawyer present is not admissible in court.

With that said. I guess if it is really that important you can ask the principle of the school to exclude your child from the program.

Keep in mind it DARE offers valuable education about drug and alcohol abuse. I personally think you are over reacting and robbing your child of valuable information that may save his life someday, BUT it's your child to raise and no one knows your circumstances like you do.

Answer 4

DARE is a great program. Kids SHOULD be comfortable with the police, they should not be intimidated by them. Any statement a minor gives without a parent or attorney present would not be admissable anyway.

Answer 5

yes you are definatly wrong, you know when i was 14, we did not have dare, but we had another program called the explorers, We met every month in the police station, and we hung out with the police, and we did innocent things such as horse back riding, and learned finger prints and learned police stuff, We learned karate, and how to defend myself I dont knowi if Dare does this or not, But later on when i grew up, the methods that they taught me saved my life Because you see i am abusive housewife, and if it wasnt for the traing i had, a little bit, I would of been dead, But i know your a all protective dad you are so afraid, but hey better to have them learn now then to come up with a drug addict later in life and not know what to do, and cant defend themselves, because my ex husband was on drugs, and when he abused me, honey i kicked back, and fought back, I did not taKE it as some girls do, And i was never in jail, My father even joined me in karate class, Soo think about it,

Answer 6

ur child will only get comfortable with 1 officer and i dont think he will get to comfortable because alot of kids make fun of officer's instead of like being there best friend