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iARE teaches kids how to say no to drugs || TONYA V. SMITH 'jlronicle Staff Writer Telling kids to say no to drugs is but it's a lot easier for them to y no if you explain what the conse- Jfllences of saying yes are, Senior Offi- M.A. Euliss Jr. of the Winston- I -'lent Police Department, said. 195 Euliss is one of two police offi- r rs who have left the pushers on the eets to educate and arm students in e classroom for the war against igs. Euliss is a full-time instructor of —^ DARE -- Drug Abuse Resistance iucation - program in local elemen- y schools. "I go to school as one of the facul- ^^’^■every day," Euliss said. "I arrive at 30 in the morning and prepare my >son plan. Then I go out to meet the Js as they arrive for class." DARE is a 17-week program iCTe trained law enforcement officers |9ji into elementary schools and teach ' ildren ways to say no to drugs and -uys to build self esteem. Senior Offi- Jj||r D. L. Paige of the city's Crime Pre- ntion Unit, said. The officers are at a Ofiiff^ent school every day. he said. T^f "The program is for students just gjf, the city schools because we got into political mess (in attempt to serve ith city and county students), and ere's Just not enough officers to do it lunty-wide," Paige said. "Next year e're hoping to be able to get more ■ficers for the program and some -»eriff deputies." J DARE is funded through North arolina's State Bureau of Investiga- m, Paige said. This is the program's lAli'cond year of operation in the state, ist year it was funded by Wachovia mk and Trust Company. The N.C. jneral Assembly allocated funds for 5 e program during the 1988-89 school lar, Paige said. Forty-three of the lie's 100 counties are participating in program this academic year, he id. . “ ningham Students at Speas Elementary School learn about drugs and their effects under the tutelage of Senior Officer M.A. Euliss Jr. The brain-child of the Los Ange- esteem.".Euliss said. "They’ve been les Police Department (LAPD) in 1983, DARE consists of one 60 minute instructional session per week for 17 weeks for fifth-graders. Students in grades K4 have shorter, more intro ductory oriented DARE classes, Euliss said. The program is copyrighted by the LAPD, he said. Topics discussed during the 17- week program include personal safety, drug use and misuse, consequences of taking drugs, resisting pressure to use very receptive to the program. School records have shown that student atten dance is higher the day an officer is in the school." A lot of the students are scared someone will try to force them to take drugs, Euliss said. "The biggest question they ask is, 'What happens if I'm forced to take drugs,"' Euliss said. "They're afraid of violence-that someone will make them take drugs. But that's not a real drugs, building self-esteem, managing common place thing. Pushers aren't stress without using drugs, media going to force someone to take drugs influences on drug use, alternatives to drug use, forming a support system, ways to deal with pressure from gangs and taking a stand against drug abuse. No actual drugs or paraphernalia are shown to the students. But students do view a film about drug and alcohol abuse during the second week of DARE, Euliss said. "We spend a lot of time building and strengthening the students' self when there are buyers available, but the kids don’t understand ihaL" Students at Latham Elementary School are understanding some other vital lessons in the DARE program. Last week fourth-graders learned that they shouldn’t be lured to a stranger's car although the person seems nice. "Who should you call for help it you’re approached by a stranger?" Euliss asked. "Ghostbusters!" several members of the class yelled as they busted into laughter. "Seriously, who would you call?" Euliss said after the laughter died down. "You!" a student said, referring to the police force. "Right." Euliss said, "And you can call a neighbor, your mom or dad or another adult friend." Euliss greeted Glenda Moore's fifth-grade class at Latham and imme diately asked them to take out their homework. The students are issued yellow "DARE to Say NO" workbooks at the beginning of the program, Euliss said. A few of the fifth-graders in Moore’s class have been approached by someone trying to persuade them to take drugs. All said the DARE pro gram helped them to walk away from drugs. "When I was walking home from school this group of teenagers walked up to me and asked me if I wanted a beer," Jamera McQueen said. "I said no and ran," Another student was tempted with cocaine. "They were trying to get me to try cocaine, but I remembered what Officer Euliss said so I Just said no and walked away," Joseph Porter said. Students have Just about formed a fan club for Officer Euliss, Moore said. 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Chapter 1, a federal compen- lory program created by the Edu- .tion Consolidation and Improve- tnt Act in 1981, is designed to ake that task a little easier. The »al of the act is to help education- ly disadvantaged children raise eii achievement levels. This goal accomplished by providing basic ills instruction in small groups or individual settings. "The primary goal of Chapter 1 the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Ounty Schools is to significantly [iprove the reading and math skills ' participating students through an dividualized, diagnostic and pre- riptive approach to instruction," lid Barbara Hayes, director of hapter 1 programs for the system. The federal government wrote 52.9 million check to the local 5tem to cover Chapter I program penses during the 1988-89 school ar. "These federal dollars are used operate remedial programs for proximalely 3,300 students in 36 the 55 schools in the system," lyes said, adding that 26 of those lools are elementary and 10 are ddle schools. "There are no lapter 1 programs at the high tool level." The federal monies are used to ploy Chapter 1 teachers, teacher- iistants and administrators. Funds 0 are used for instructional mate- Is, equipment and for staff devel- ment and program evaluation, yes said. Schools with a high proportion students receiving free or Iduced lunches are eligible for Mapter 1 funding. "Schools are identified for Chapter 1 participation on the basis of the concentration of children within the attendance area from low-income families," Hayes said. "Schools are ranked on the basis of the percentage of children within that attendance area who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Schools with a percentage abovel9 percent are ’eligible’ schools." After a school qualifies for Chapter 1 funding, any student at that school with an educational need is eligible for program partici pation. Students who rank at or below the 49th percentile on the California Achievement Test (CAT) are con sidered potential Chapter 1 stu dents. "After all eligible students have been identified, selection for pro gram participation is based on a point system," Hayes said. "Points are assigned for test ranking, per formance level, teacher Judgment and age, and are totaled for a selec tion score." Students with the highest selec tion scores have the greatest need for Chapter 1 remedial help and are placed first in the program until it fills up. Eight thousand students in grades K-12 were identified for the program this academic year, but only 3,300 are Chapter 1 students, Hayes said. "It's not that funds have been cut, it Just costs more to provide services for smaller numbers of children," Hayes said. "We are pay ing for teacher salaries which have increased and prices for instruction al materials are up." Chapter 1 is broken up into three different programs: Elemen tary School Reading, Early Inter vention and Middle School Math. Approximately 2,000 children in grades K-5 participate in the Please see page A10 NEED A CREDIT CARD? NO PROBLEM! 100% APPROVED EVEN WITH JUDGMENTS. MasterCard * Visa WITHOUT a security nccoont. Please etKlose a money order for $30.00 for required information to: NATIONAL CREDIT CORPORATION 401 N.YV. 3tst Avenne Switt «238 Ft. Lawfeidag} PL 33309
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