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Eighty-nine Rappahannock Elementary seventh graders became the first class in the school’s history to graduate from the Sheriffs Office’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program during ceremonies at the school Friday.
“These students have learned ways of coping with today’s world,’’ said Lt. Jeff Brown of the Sheriffs Office, who taught the course.
DARE, modeled after a program begun in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, involves months of classroom time designed to keep kids from getting involved with drugs or alcohol.
All of the school’s seventh-graders completed the program in the first semester. The fifth grade will be taking the course between now and the end of this year. Next year two more grades will be instructed in the DARE
See DARE, p. A-5
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