Mary Farmar Fifth Graders Graduate From D.A.R.E.

With parents looking on and police officers lining the back wall of the cafeteria, 96 fifth graders at donned their new D.A.R.E. t-shirts and pledged to live a drug free life on Friday.

The program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, teaches kids life skills and decision making that will help them live healthier lives.  It teaches them how to deal with peer pressure and encourages healthy activities over drug and alcohol abuse.

“I’ve always been involved with D.A.R.E.,” said , principal at Mary Farmar Elementary.  “It helps kids resist media pressure.”

“Media pressure is huge,” said Smith.  “It gives kids stereotypes that aren’t always healthy.

Over the course of the school year fifth grade students in each public elementary school and at St, Dominic’s participate in the DARE program.  In Benicia D.A.R.E. is paid for with a grant from Valero.