St. Martin students graduate D.A.R.E. program
St. Martin of Tours school in Amityville's fifth grade graduated from the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program. The Suffolk County Police department along with St. Martin's school teaches this program to the fifth grade. D.A.R.E. is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives. Unfortunately, this was the last 5th grade class graduating from the D.A.R.E. program. Suffolk County's police department is dropping the D.A.R.E. program. Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said that he would like to replace D.A.R.E. with another drug-prevention program. Each year after the classroom lessons, the students are asked to write an essay about what they learned. Four students are picked to read theirs. The four essays picked exemplified what the officers tried to convey to the students.
Shown in the photo are this year's students, left to right, Mathew Garcia, Sarah Leheny, Emma Pascuzzi and Kevin Carman. These students are shown with the two officers who taught the class and Principal Razzetti.
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