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is committed to creating an innovative and a creative education system and to prepare students for a rapidly changing world. On behalf of the students and the parents, I want to say: thank you. Your support and dedication cannot be stressed enough. How proud you must be today to see your students with bags of good character, lifelong learning skills, and integrity. Your planning, teaching, and encouraging have come to fruition. Your unconditional support has inspired and encouraged them to achieve their best at. Teachers, you have been a key element in the children’s education. On behalf of the school and the students, I want to say: thank you. Parents, you must be proud of your child and yourselves. Through the education and the knowledge that they have, and most importantly the guidance, values and the love that you, the parents, have provided to your children, now they are ready to face any challenge. A time for parents to both honor their child’s accomplishments and a time to worry as they embark on their next journey.īut parents let me put your mind at ease, your child is very well prepared for whatever they choose to peruse after. Today marks both an end and a new beginning for our graduates. Hopefully they’ll stay on the right path.Your excellence _, Minister of State for Youth Affairs, governing board members, school staff, parents, and honored guests, welcome to our 15th graduation ceremony. “Hopefully they’ll stay away from the drugs and hopefully they won’t become bullies. “When he walks in with that uniform, he’s got their attention.” Straus said he typically visits his students when they go to middle school, and he hopes that his presence will be a reminder of D.A.R.E.’s message for future classes that won’t participate in the program. “We don’t wear the uniform, and the uniform is so impressive,” she said. Redding said she will address the major points of D.A.R.E.’s curriculum with her fifth-grade class next year, but Straus leaves behind big shoes - and a big uniform - to fill. He gets them so excited about being healthy,” she said. Fifth-grade teacher Barbara Redding said her students got a lot out of the program every year and credited Straus’ enthusiasm with its success. “I’ve learned to always drink responsibly - not that I would even drink,” Howe said. William Howe and Margaret Stanley were the other two essay contest winners. Learning to make good choices in the program and resist offers to use alcohol or drugs made her feel “strong and capable” she added. “If you’re like me, mostly happy, pretty nice and just enjoying life, using alcohol, tobacco and drugs is not being yourself,” she said. Madelyne Morris said the program taught her the importance of staying true to herself. Each read their essays about what they learned in the program aloud to classmates and parents. One student from each of Division Street’s three fifth-grade classes was selected as an essay contest winner. The school district is looking at different options to continue a similar curriculum for next year’s fifth-grade classes. “It’s a safe environment to ask your questions,” she said. Greer Miller, said the students all love “Officer Tony.” She said the program is valuable because it provides the students an opportunity to address issues they may encounter in middle school. program would last forever,” he said after Monday’s ceremony. officer but has now gone back to working the midnight patrol shift. In January, the city’s Department of Public Safety decided to discontinue the program - which teaches fifth-grade students to say no to drugs and to make good decisions about their friends, bullying and health - as a result of budget cuts. The 22-year member of the Saratoga Springs Police Department, who is also an Iraq War veteran, has been the school district’s D.A.R.E. “After today, there will be no more D.A.R.E. SARATOGA SPRINGS - Three classes of fifth-grade students looked up at Officer Tony Straus with rapt attention Monday afternoon as he presided over the school’s last D.A.R.E.
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