I knew it! What a scam.. (re: the D.A.R.E. program)

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ailish@reddit

Haha good job!

I once wrote a paper for a psychology class on the morning it was due. I hammered it out in an hour. The Prof loved it so much and gave me an A. She read parts of it in front of the class and I was so embarrassed.

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frackleboop@reddit

Similar situation here. During my senior year of high school, my English teacher told us that on a certain day, he would be going desk to desk to go over the paper we were supposed to be writing. Some of the class thought he was bluffing, myself included. He was not. I was on the other side of the class from where he started and just hammered it out before he got to me. When he had all the final drafts graded, he read mine in front of the class and said it was his favorite paper. Shy, insecure me was mortified instead of proud. Now I wish I had kept a copy of it.

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ailish@reddit

Haha nice job! That's impressive!

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mysecretissafe@reddit

Haha! I got one like that.

In american history class in high school, the teacher was going to do a unit on the Chicago Seven and set up the class as a mock trial. I got assigned to be the defense attorney, and I had two weeks to get into my role. Nobody was really into it the day of the ‘trial’, and I had not prepared at all, so the prosecution side was like “yeah well, they totally did it and they’re unamerican, I rest my case”. I was stoned, embarrassed, and decided to go ham and be the most dramatic defense attorney I could muster up. I paced around and pointed out various facts I gleaned over the course of the lecture side, and somehow managed to tie in protest being the most American thing I could think of and “ladies and gentlemen it is 1969, we destroyed the nazis 25 years ago half a world over to defend these rights” blah blah.

Got wild applause and the teacher shut down the trial after my opening statement because I swayed the jury too hard. Lmao

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ailish@reddit

Haha that's hilarious!

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit

I don't do drugs. Just weed.

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TheRoyalShe@reddit

ABBA Zabba, you my only friend.

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GoldenWar@reddit

Um, DARE made it very clear that you could die from trying weed.

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mickeltee@reddit

You ever listen to Dark Side of the Moon……….on weed?

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bassman314@reddit

Whilst watching The Wizard of Oz?

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ConcentrateFull7202@reddit

Actually, yes, and once at a showing in a movie theater.

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Clamwacker@reddit

The old California sober lifestyle

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bassman314@reddit

Old? Still exists!

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superthighheater3000@reddit

I think they meant traditional.

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

The funniest part about the intersection of D.A.R.E. And 90’s culture was picking up D.A.R.E. shirts at a thrift store to wear them ironically.

Like, circa 1994-1997, if you saw a teenager wearing a D.A.R.E. shirt, there’s a good chance they’d either sell you an eighth or at least share a J.

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DifficultMinute@reddit

My son is only 19, and he pointed that out to me completely unprompted.

“Ever notice the kids wearing DARE shirts are always the ones doing drugs? It’s like the weed version of Virginity Rocks shirts.”

Some things never change lol

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A_dissident_is_here2@reddit

Our weed guy in college was there on a DARE scholarship. Or at least that was the myth and either way it’s been one of my favorite parts of college to this day!

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1980pzx@reddit

Back when I was hooked on pain pills, one of my dealers had a D.A.R.E. license plate, LoL. It was ironic when she got pulled over with thousands of dollars worth of product and they showed the car on the news.

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Bushwazi@reddit

I rocked my dare shirt from sixth grade. I was so edgy!

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bassbeatsbanging@reddit

I used to screen print t-shirts that were knock offs of the Dare logo that said "Dancing At Raves on Ecstasy"

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stavago@reddit

A few people at our school had the one that said “Drugs Are Really Excellent” under the logo

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My5thAccountSoFar@reddit

Drugs Are Really Expensive

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Hippy_Lynne@reddit

My favorite were the shirts that said "I turned my parents in to DARE and all I got was this shitty t-shirt." 🤣🤣🤣

Also this reminds me of a trend in the gay bars about 10 years ago. Guys wearing "I met my husband on christianmingle.com." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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AncientMatter1042@reddit

Haha…that’s where I got the one I currently have. It’s the red version.

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omega_manhatten@reddit

I feel like the only one that ever listened in D.A.R.E. class. Im 42 and have never done a single drug or consumed enough alcohol to get drunk...

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ErnieBochII@reddit

Shhhhh Everyone shut up u/omega_manhatten is here.

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RoyDonkeyKong@reddit

let’s all peer pressure them so they can’t narc on us

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omega_manhatten@reddit

Honestly, never had any interest in narcing on anyone, drinking/smoking/drugs just wasn't something I was ever into doing.

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w0rsh1pm3owo@reddit

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DryWarning3@reddit

This made me think about the big production made of my grade being the "Smoke-Free Class of 2000"... not sure that worked quite as well as they hoped.

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URfwend@reddit

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des1gnbot@reddit

Hey that’s where I’m at now since the pancreas crapped out. Very thankful for legal weed now

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Almc27@reddit

Just a couple of days ago, a woman came to set up a table in front of a restaurant we were eating at. I could see her from the patio where we were sat but she was facing the opposite way so I couldn't see anything on the table. We walked out and lo and behold it was a D.A.R.E. table! I was honestly shocked because I thought they discontinued this program awhile back because they found out it didn't work.

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full_of_ghosts@reddit

I went to a weird Christian private school. Missed out on the whole D.A.R.E. thing, but I got plenty of other forms of craziness out of my pre-university education.

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ThepalehorseRiderr@reddit

I think back to how wild this all was. Like dude, I'm an elementary school kid in the cornfields of Ohio, nobody is gonna offer me crack.

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

I got sent to the office for telling the cop that my uncles never gave away drugs for free

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walrus_breath@reddit

That was actually a part of their plan as the program was designed. It was getting kids to rat out their parents and adults in their lives so that the police would know who sold or did drugs in town so they could go hassle them. You should look into the dare program it was proven to be ineffective at preventing kids from doing drugs and absolutely immoral to put it lightly.

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

Fascinating!

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CraigGrade@reddit

To be fair, fentanyl later ravaged your area

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ThepalehorseRiderr@reddit

Maybe because they told us all that smoking weed was on par with banging heroine.

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zackks@reddit

Choosy white boys choose meth.

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NegativlyOptimistic@reddit

My kid, currently in 5th grade has his D.A.R.E. Graduation Wednesday.

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Dfiggsmeister@reddit

They’re still doing it? I thought it ended years ago.

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hypo11@reddit

Where I live it’s called “L.E.A.D” now (Law Enforcement Against Drugs). Not sure if it’s exactly the same as DARE was but the same fundamental concept.

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LightboxRadMD@reddit

Once in D.A.R.E. we had a brief essay due that I completely forgot about until the morning of. My 4th grade self hammered out the most uninspired bullshit schlock in about 3 minutes just to get it done. It ended up winning an essay contest and I had to read it at a ceremony in front of like 100 parents. I also got the crappiest plastic D.A.R.E. watch as a prize. Such a bizarre experience beginning to end. I felt like such a fraud since the essay was absolute horseshit.

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Objective-Dust4795@reddit

Then you were the perfect representation for dare.

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apt_get@reddit

Ha! Same. I still have that medal somewhere.

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stations-creation@reddit

I DID THE SAME THING except I got a $20 gift certificate to the candy store!! Ran into my dare officer buying cigs later oopsie poopsies!

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

Smoke um if you got um

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WMDeception@reddit

Oopsie. Poopsies. As they say.

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IlikegreenT84@reddit

When I was older I got a D.A.R.E. to do drugs shirt...

I thought it was funny..

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three-sense@reddit

That happened to me with a “fire safety” essay. Like, what, I just repeated some things from a video we watched in the same class. The teacher read it out loud during lunch.

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downwarddawg@reddit

I had the identical experience but they gave me a medal.

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xlunaxchickx@reddit

I just felt like the main take away was you will get made fun of for not doing drugs. I grew up in suburban and I feel like anyone who ever offered me drugs was just being polite.

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FuNiOnZ@reddit

My most poignant D.A.R.E. memory? Going on a field trip to the local baseball stadium where all the other elementary students were also invited for the local area, where they gave all of us tshirts to wear and then had some sort of ‘band’ that was an all-cop ensemble to sing us corny songs, one of which is still lodged firmly in my brain meat to this very day

DARE! To keep the kids off drugs! Thank god for YouTube otherwise I’d think this was some sort of fever dream

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Scrapla1@reddit

I barely remember anything we did in D.A.R.E. except one session was about drunk driving. He divided up the class into two groups and I remember some kids chanting "tastes great, less filling." I'm assuming we mocked a beer commerical. The other thing I remember is they confiscated some low rider pick up truck with hydrolics and would bring us out to the parking lot to watch it hop and bounce. It was basically like a small break during the morning which we all loved.

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

Anyone else just fill in the yes bubble when they had us take the anonymous multiple choices drug survey? Lol I did none of it but I was pissed they were wasting our time with that shit.

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carryon4threedays@reddit

I’m still waiting on the free sample to get me hooked.

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iiooiooi@reddit

Don't ride the subway alone!

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enek101@reddit

Right?

It like the old check you candy because it could be laced with drugs.. No susan im not giving any of my drugs away for free.. you can buy your own.

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whyneedaname77@reddit

Side note on something similar. I met this guy who started a new program Steered Straight instead of Scared Straight. He was an interesting guy and seemed to really care. Its been a few years. But he seemed really into it. I respect people who try to help.

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manism582@reddit

I don’t quite follow the concept here. Does he cut the kids’ nuts off to keep them off drugs? (If you don’t get that joke, ask a farmer kids)

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

Haven’t watched the video yet but once upon a time I was going to be a substance abuse counselor. I got most of the way through the program. I stopped short of working in a clinic. Anyway, we were told DARE was an abysmal failure. Sort of like trying to solve teen pregnancy by telling kids to not have sex. It introduced kids to drugs instead of scaring them to keep away. People who are interested in using drugs tend to have other issues that cannot be solved by simply saying no to drugs. The underlying issues need to be addressed first.

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lonesharkex@reddit

Theres no ties to the herbalife guy and dare, does the person mean they got the idea from herbalife?

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tgerz@reddit

I'm not sure. The only things I've found so far are not showing a direct connection. I don't know if these guys cite any sources.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-18-tm-26780-story.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/obvid2/found_my_dare_workbook_from_2002_and_herbalife_is/

One frustrating thing is it seems like Google AI is helping to perpetuate. I have another screenshot I'll reply to this comment with.

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