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A Letter To D.A.R.E. - Barry Cooper (thanks to Miss Green @ Break The Matrix)
http://www.breakthematrix.com/War-on-Drugs/A-Letter-to-D-A-R-E
This is a letter I sent with my 5th grader regarding D.A.R.E. Teaching your kids the truth is paramount in terms of properly raising your child!!! My parents, teachers and clergy lied to me. Don’t lie to your kids. Feel free to copy this letter and send it with your kid. Our current economic crisis, the 700 billion dollar bailout plan, should be proof enough to confirm or convince you our government cannot be trusted!
To Whom It May Concern,
We are the parents of ______________________ and this letter is regarding our stance against D.A.R.E. We will allow _____________________ to “go through the motions” of the D.A.R.E program without disturbing the class but we teach him not to respect anything D.A.R.E. teaches.
I was one of our nation’s top drug enforcement officers for 8 years and along with thousands of other ex-narcotics officers, we now realize the War On Drugs is unjust, bias, prejudice and cruel. Please see www.leap.cc [http://www.leap.cc] (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.) We also know the War on Drugs is heavily propagated by many government programs including D.A.R.E.
We believe in healthy drug education and awareness programs and we teach our kids the truth about drugs…unlike the D.A.R.E. program your school is
offering. D.A.R.E. teaches lies based on fear and slanted government studies.
A quick review of the prestige Harvard’s website versus D.A.R.E.’s website will show these stark differences in the facts regarding drug use and/or abuse.
It is unfortunate we refer to our current education system as, “public schools,” yet we allow government agents (police) to be the teachers!
Government involvement has taken our schools from the best in the world to 50% of our high schoolers dropping out each year and our country ranking 42cnd in the world in literacy.
Our family is very involved in trying to change this system so thanks for understanding and we are proud to send our son to _________________ I.S.D.!!!!!
Regards,
Barry N. Cooper
Candi Cooper
This is a letter I sent with my 5th grader regarding D.A.R.E. Teaching your kids the truth is paramount in terms of properly raising your child!!! My parents, teachers and clergy lied to me. Don’t lie to your kids. Feel free to copy this letter and send it with your kid. Our current economic crisis, the 700 billion dollar bailout plan, should be proof enough to confirm or convince you our government cannot be trusted!
To Whom It May Concern,
We are the parents of ______________________ and this letter is regarding our stance against D.A.R.E. We will allow _____________________ to “go through the motions” of the D.A.R.E program without disturbing the class but we teach him not to respect anything D.A.R.E. teaches.
I was one of our nation’s top drug enforcement officers for 8 years and along with thousands of other ex-narcotics officers, we now realize the War On Drugs is unjust, bias, prejudice and cruel. Please see www.leap.cc [http://www.leap.cc] (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.) We also know the War on Drugs is heavily propagated by many government programs including D.A.R.E.
We believe in healthy drug education and awareness programs and we teach our kids the truth about drugs…unlike the D.A.R.E. program your school is
offering. D.A.R.E. teaches lies based on fear and slanted government studies.
A quick review of the prestige Harvard’s website versus D.A.R.E.’s website will show these stark differences in the facts regarding drug use and/or abuse.
It is unfortunate we refer to our current education system as, “public schools,” yet we allow government agents (police) to be the teachers!
Government involvement has taken our schools from the best in the world to 50% of our high schoolers dropping out each year and our country ranking 42cnd in the world in literacy.
Our family is very involved in trying to change this system so thanks for understanding and we are proud to send our son to _________________ I.S.D.!!!!!
Regards,
Barry N. Cooper
Candi Cooper
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