This year my daughter is in grade 5. What this means is that this is her final year in elementary school and next year she will be headed to junior high school. Oh man, am I ever feeling old now! Well in grade 5 they do a lot of different things to help ease the transition into junior high a little more easily for the kids. One of the things they do is teach a course called D.A.R.E. D.A.R.E stands for Drug Awareness and Recreation Education. In this course an actual police officer comes in to teach the classes. They discuss all the pitfalls of getting into drugs.

They teach the kids all about the different types of drugs that they can get access to and also about all the side effects and trouble they can get into if they do indeed take these drugs. They also discuss what it entails when a person needs to enter a drug treatment center to get clean. They explain how by taking a drug treatment program will help you, if your not careful you could very easily relapse.

I think this is a wonderful course to teach the children as we all have heard on the news or with personal life stories, kids in the junior high level can get tempted just as much as anyone else. My daughter is pretty smart about things like this already, but I am actually looking forward to her hearing all about drugs and their influences from an actual police officer.