Klingler Family: Dare Graduation

Last night we celebrated with Jessica and the other 450 5th graders in completing the DARE program. This program is designed to teach the youth how to handle stress, stay drug and alcohol free, along with reporting bullying. Each of them had to make the commitment to graduate.

Jessica was able to take the class the first trimester of the school year. She learned a lot and really enjoyed the teacher Officer Scott. She was always excited for her encore class on the day it was DARE. In the class each student had to write a report about what they learned, they each read them in class and then the best report in each class was chosen and given an award at the graduation. They had 2 of the winners read there reports and they were very good.

The guest speaker for the night was Jason Buck, a super bowl champion that graduated from South Fremont High school. He talked about all the trials her went through and how important it is to have a dream and continue to work towards it, even when no one believes in you. It was a good speech but lasted a really long time. The whole program was support to be an hour long but it lasted almost 2 hours.

Jason Buck

The end of the program was the 5th graders singing a song about what the learned in DARE. The lines that stood out to me were: "D" I won't do drugs, "A" won't have an attitude, " R" I will respect myself, "E" I will educate me.

Jessica's team singing

After it was over we had the opportunity to meet Jason Buck and get his autograph. Kylynn ran right over to him and Aleeya followed so I went after them. They had a table setup in the lobby for this. Ky handed him the program as he was walking out to the table and was the first to get an autograph, crazy . Jessica finally joined us and she and Matt also were able to also get an autograph.