D.A.R.E. Turns Another Little Kid Into a Snitch

• Lan wrote on 2010-10-19 02:07

  A D.A.R.E. anti-drug lesson about the "dangers" of marijuana made such an impression on a fifth grader that he brought his parents' joints to school and reported them. He's now been removed from his house by social services.
  So, good job all around on this one, but in particular to the North Carolina D.A.R.E. officer who called parents smoking pot a "dangerous situation" and apparently told the WBTV reporter in the video above that this sad, horrible incident is a "success" for the D.A.R.E. program. Good job also to the parents, who seem to be completely unable to properly hide their weed from their kid, and great job to the 11-year-old who was so swayed by the coloring book he decided to sell his own parents down the river. What, did this school not have enough STOP SNITCHING t-shirts, or something?
  
  The 40-year-old father and 38-year-old mother have both been arrested. The kid and a sibling are now staying with relatives, just in case their parents get stoned and, I don't know, force them to listen to Tangerine Dream with them or something.

  
  
  D.A.R.E. Turns Another Little Kid Into a Snitch
• Cannibal wrote on 2010-10-19 02:09
  Kids are ****ing stupid. I never payed attention to D.A.R.E, anyway.
• Magenera wrote on 2010-10-19 02:12
  Wow, the D.A.R.E program managed to work. Though it screwed over having parents, as a mild success. Congratulation for adding another 2 people who is going to be charge with attempting to sell POT. :D Another statistic to add in our ever growing prisons to combat pot.
• Pwezent wrote on 2010-10-19 02:18
  I lol'd, the kid basically kicked himself out of the house.
  But seriously, this is kind of sad. That poor kid is not going to see his parents for a long time :c
• Zid wrote on 2010-10-19 02:37
  If the parents knew all along about the consequences and also what the school teaches their kid, it's their own fault, really.
  
  Can't really blame the kid or DARE though.
• Time wrote on 2010-10-19 02:59
  Wow, who would turn their own parents in.....>.>....And who pays attention in dare..
  
  Drugs
  Are
  Really
  Exciting.
• Zid wrote on 2010-10-19 03:12

  Quote from Timexpo;187432:

  Wow, who would turn their own parents in.....>.>....

  
  
  To shed a bit more light on this, I did. I had people telling me it was one of the dumbest things I've done, but I turned my mother in when she lied directly to the police about something.
  
  You can call it dumb, anybody can call it dumb. But the negative feelings she had for me at that time drove me numb and I couldn't stand lying anymore. I may have committed one of the worst dishonors in filial piety, but Western beliefs numbed my sympathy. What this kid did was understandable and reasonable; whether or not people say that's bad is their own opinions.
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-10-19 03:17
  Wow that kid sure loved his parents :l
  
  
  oh and DARE fails so much
• Intex wrote on 2010-10-19 03:20
  Yeah the anti-drug program really pounds the same message into your head for years.
  DRUGS ARE BAD, DRUGS ARE BAD, DRUGS ARE BAD, REPORT EVERYONE, REPORT EVERYONE.
  Why do we focus so much on telling kids they need to report everyone else, no one does it after they reach high school...
• VitaminC wrote on 2010-10-19 13:40
  Haha. Why disrespect those who feed you to appease the damn world?
  
  If my parents are good to me, why would I throw them to the wind. Kid probably didn't understand consequences, which people seem to leave out now a days till the fan is brown. D.A.R.E. bored the hell out of me. If the parents were bad to the kid, then this was a success for only one person and in only one way. The kid and his willpower for a moment. A real paladin in the making?
• Kaeporo wrote on 2010-10-19 13:56
  I understand both sides of the situation.
  
  On one hand, the child obeyed the law and reported substance abuse to authorities.
  On the other, the same child also threw his parents into jail.
  
  There are a lot of unknown variables here.
  
  Perhaps the parents were also abusive? Perhaps the child was upset because they grounded him or something?
  
  You can't get upset at the child. You can, however, get upset at the laws regarding the enforcement of certain drugs. Like it or not, the parents were breaking the law. Even if the kid hadn't snitched, should they have been arrested some other way the same protective actions would have been taken.
  
  There's nothing wrong with the DARE program. Regardless of your stance on drug use, kids definitely shouldn't be using them.
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-10-19 21:57
  Psychologically speaking, at a young age, good and bad are white and black, with little to no gray. The brain just isn't as developed. The kid probably didn't see the whole picture. Perhaps he just knows that he was taught that something is very bad, and that bad people should get told on, and that his parents were dong something bad, so he told on them.
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-10-20 00:12
  woot! More "child heroes" from 1984! First it was "report your parents for not recycling" and now this.
• Mrlucky77 wrote on 2010-10-23 17:40
  Two responses.
  
  
  D.A.R.E To Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence Part 1
  
  D.A.R.E To Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence Part 2
• Tatsu wrote on 2010-10-23 17:54
  lol, how'd I miss this article? >.>
  
  IIRC, the main reason why most people I know that smokes weed is because of DARE telling them not to when they were younger.