Finn D.

Dare…

Introduction...

Did you know that DARE means drug abuse resistance education? Bet you didn't. DARE has
been life changing for me. It’s taught me so many many things. Like to calm down at certain
times and don’t stress a lot, always try to get homework and other things on time to your
teacher (like this essay) and to walk away at certain times and, sometimes it's good to just
say no. It has not only made me become a better person it's also made me do my chores
when am asked, not argue as much, don't make such a fuss and think before you speak.
These are all life lessons I learned and I hope you enjoy them!!!

Part 1…

In my introduction I just scraped the top of all the stuff I learned in DARE so in the following
text I will be explaining about each lesson. In lesson 1 we learned about classroom respect
and just how to treat people in general. and about the Golden rule, Treat other people the
way you want to be treated, and all the DARE rules.

Rule 1 Raise your hand.

Rule 2 Be positive, responsible and respectful and being a put down can hurt feelings and
stop open discussions.

Rule 3 Observe and use the quiet signal if people are being to loud.   

Rule 4 Use the words “someone I know” instead of a person's name when sharing a story
that involves something bad that happened to you or them.

Rule 5 Answer only question that are comfortable for you to share.

These are all the rules we follow in the DARE classroom. There is also one more thing that
we learned in the first day of DARE. We learned how to assess the situation so first to
assess the situation what you do is think about the problem and then think about your
options then choose which one is the best for you then after the fact decide if that was a
good decision. These are all things we learned just on the first day.

Part 2...       

Did you know that alcohol and tobacco together causes 475,000 deaths a year? So this
paragraph is about what alcohol and tobacco can do to your body and the effects also about
risky situations. So here are some facts of alcohol use. Alcohol is illegal for anyone under 21
which most of you probably know, mixing alcohol with medicine is very dangerous which is
pretty much common sense. When teens drink which is pretty rare it affects them more than
adults because they are still growing.

Now here are some facts about tobacco.

It is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under 18. There are 200 harmful chemicals in
cigarettes, cigarettes are really addictive. It is really bad for your health. Both alcohol and
tobacco are really bad for you do drink or do.

In every DARE leason we assess situations and make smart decisions like I explained to you
in part 1.

Part 3...  

In part 2 I explained that we assess the situation in every DARE class. In lesson 3 we only
did that. So let's move onto lesson 4. In lesson 4 we learned how to resist peer pressure
from people who use peer pressure on you to smoke or drink.

Here are some strategies. Avoid where you know people are smoking or drinking, stay with
friends, walk away, and give excuses and change the subject that way they are off track on
what they were saying. We also worked on assessing work like we do in every class.

Part 4...

These past parts that you’ve read have been the first couple and most important DARE  
lessons to share in this essay. Here are some quick fun parts and facts I learned in other
DARE classes. When ever we did skits (we did skits to act out assessing the situation)

We always have a great time we laugh and made jokes it was really fun. Some people think
police officers are kind of scary and I used to kind of be like that but once you start DARE it's
so much fun we're going to have a pizza party and everything! It's made me so happy to be
in DARE and be a better person in the world!!!! :)  

CONCLUSION…

So in the text you just read I’ve put the most important information that I saw fit to put in this
essay. I had a exhilarating time in the DARE classroom it makes you feel safe in DARE. It
teaches you some really fun, useful and happy things. You really look forward to DARE days
because all the time your having so much fun.

So if I were to summarize this all up I say that DARE is fun and it teaches you great life
lessons I even use them all the time. When I am stressed I take a deep breath and use all
the strategies that DARE taught me. It has helped me through so much and it has made be
such a better person.