Government exercising crowd control on students?
Becoming a thug, drug seller or user after being treated like one, just because looks cool or out of spite?
Government didn't get the memo about psychological/social consequences of such an action?

I would like to know what lead to such an inept action and how are those students doing today, I really do.

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On a side note, did you know that D.A.R.E actually increases drug use among teens?

I can dig up more resources on this if you like, but the author of the piece I linked cites various other studies and makes a poignant observation: you could tell kids thought D.A.R.E. was a joke because the kids who were the biggest druggies when I went to school were always the ones wearing D.A.R.E. shirts.

>> ^JiggaJonson:

On a side note, did you know that D.A.R.E actually increases drug use among teens?
I can dig up more resources on this if you like, but the author of the piece I linked cites various other studies and makes a poignant observation: you could tell kids thought D.A.R.E. was a joke because the kids who were the biggest druggies when I went to school were always the ones wearing D.A.R.E. shirts.


I'm not really one to support the use of 'marketing' to coerce the public into behaving a certain way, and I am not a fan of some aspects of the D.A.R.E program, but I'm struck by the thought that D.A.R.E could really have benefited from more extensive research into how the program would be perceived.


It makes sense that kids and adolescents would not want to be associated with a federally sponsored program with the stated goal of restricting their behavior. Regardless of whether that is the true structure of the program, it is not an effective image. They may have achieved better results if they avoided the appearance of 'top down' control, and instead focused on shaping the image of each child in the program as a self-motivated individual taking charge of his own life.


They should have noticed that D.A.R.E had an inherent branding problem, looked around, and said "hey, there are a lot of kids who are proud to call themselves 'straight edge', maybe we could do something like that?"

If you want a program like this to succeed, you don't make a half-assed attempt to reason with the kids, you either give them all of the facts and let them make their own choices without judgement, or you convince them that they are part of the Pepsi Generation.

Only the iphone and youtube can save us now. In all seriousness thats always been the case. The eye in the sky watches us all impartially. Who can object to that.


That is seriously scary... barking dogs, guns drawn?? my heart started racing just watching it

>> ^cracanata:

Government exercising crowd control on students?
Becoming a thug, drug seller or user after being treated like one, just because looks cool or out of spite?
Government didn't get the memo about psychological/social consequences of such an action?
I would like to know what lead to such an inept action and how are those students doing today, I really do.


The students are all either now on antidepressants or ADD drugs.