DARE program helps kids live good lives
Editor’s note: The following essay was written as part of the DARE program for fifth-grade students at Keyser Primary Middle School.
To begin with, I am glad that every kid in our school must complete the DARE program. Even though I’m only 11 years old, I understand how important it is to know how bad drugs and alcohol can mess up your life because I have a relative who has been hooked on drugs and alcohol for 17 years and is sick all the time, can’t keep a job and has been in jail.
Because of this class, I have learned that alcohol can destroy your health and it can cause you to not drive good, and you could wreck and hurt somebody.
Third, I have learned that drugs can kill you, and can cause bad health. Drugs can make you not have a job and you will not have a good relationship with your family.
Fourth, smoking can cause lung cancer. You will have trouble with your heart, and smoking can kill you. Smoking can make your clothes, car and house stink. I have asthma and if I am around someone who smokes, it can cause me to have an asthma attack. I won’t be able to breathe, and I would have to have a treatment so I could breathe.
Last, the DARE program has taught me the same things that my Grandma and Pappy have taught me and my sister about how drugs, cigarettes and alcohol can cost so much. Drugs can take all of your money, destroy your health, ruin your family, and cause you not to have good friends. Sometimes they can make you go to jail and sometimes they can make you die.
I am glad that Sheriff Fraley taught me about drugs so I can live a good life and have good friends and family. Because of Sheriff Fraley I will not be afraid of police officers, and I know that they are my friends.
Jeremy Garlitz
Keyser Primary Middle School
Keyser, W.Va. —
