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The Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office D.A.R.E. program held its graduation for Grover Hill Elementary fifth graders on April 19, 2017. Each student was required to write an essay before they could graduate. D.A.R.E. program consist of 12 lessons and the essay gives the students a chance to reflect back on the lessons.<\/p>\n
Essays described what they learned and how the D.A.R.E. program can help them make safe, responsible choices.\u00a0 \u201cOnce I receive all the essays, winners are selected and they receive a prize.\u00a0 This year the two essay winners were Kyla Hurd and Alexandria Stephey,\u201d says D.A.R.E. Deputy Mendez, \u201cI am proud of each and every student and hope they will always<\/p>\n be safe and responsible.\u201d\u00a0 Each 5th grader who completed the essay received a Certificate of Completion at graduation and a D.A.R.E. t-shirt.<\/p>\n \u201cI truly appreciate our Paulding County Commissioners assisting the D.A.R.E program and covering majority of the costs beyond grant monies and donations,\u201d said Sheriff Jason K. Landers.<\/p>\n Individuals and organizations can send D.A.R.E donations to Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office, 500 East Perry Street, Paulding, Ohio\u00a0 45879.\u00a0 All donations are deposited directly into the D.A.R.E fund account.<\/p>\n D.A.R.E. Essay<\/p>\n By: Kyla Hurd<\/p>\n D!A!R!E! What does that spell? D.A.R.E. In the D.A.R.E. program we learn how to make good decisions. D.A.R.E. means Define, Assess, Respond, and Evaluate. We have been in D.A.R.E. for about several weeks now\u00a0and every Wednesday we get a very new lesson. In this essay I will be talking about the D.A.R.E. program and what I have learned. Let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n What have learned in the dare program? I learned about being responsible, drugs and alcohol, risks and consequences, effective communication, stress, and bullying. I know it sounds a lot of stuff to learn, but it\u2019s all really basic knowledge. We deal with these things in our everyday lives. We can stress over something really small and make it in a bug deal, but we can relieve this stress with a stress ball, screaming in pillow, or just calming your breathing. Communication is really important, it\u2019s how you express your feelings. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m mot a good communicator. We learned about risk and consequences, there are bad and good consequences. Risks are when you take a chance and consequence is what happens afterwards. I learned about being responsible or at least being more responsible. Also, we learned about drugs and alcohol, which we all know is very bad for us in many ways. Certain types of drugs, like the bad kind, can kill you, so can alcohol.<\/p>\n What is the D.A.R.E. decision making model? It\u2019s what I was talking about before. Define, Assess, Respond, and Evaluate. These are ways to solve a decision or a problem. Here\u2019s and example: You play on a hockey team. Some of your friends are wanting to invite you to go roller skating, but it\u2019s on the same day as practice. How would you decide what to do? I have used this before but I was in cheerleading and by bestest friend asked me to go with here to the movies. I asked myself if it\u2019s more important to go to practice and possibly get better with my toe touches, or go see the movie I want to watch really badly. I decided practice is more important, so I told my friend and she understood and we are still besties to this very day.\u00a0 I told her that we can see it another day and we did. That\u2019s how we all decide. We face problems everyday of our lives. Maybe we are deciding if we want to ride a bike or walk instead of driving to not pollute our air that we breathe.<\/p>\n I plan to use the things i\u2019ve learned during D.A.R.E. in everyday life. I can take what I learned about drugs and alcohol and stay away form it, so I don\u2019t get bad side effects. I can also use what i\u2019ve learned in other lessons to stay away or act like I\u2019m suppose to. I can use what i\u2019ve learned to act responsibly. Also, so we can reach other people\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n We learned a lot during dare and I learned a lot too. 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