By Marla Jones

Managing Editor

marla@southerntorch.com 

RAINSVILLE, Ala.-- The DARE Graduation was held at the DeKalb County Schools Coliseum on Wednesday, May 11.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is to teach peer resistance and refusal skills so that adolescents can say “no” to drugs and their friends who may want them to use drugs. 

The DeKalb County Program is sponsored by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and the DeKalb County Board of Education. 

The graduation, which is the first since COVID, had over 600 fifth graders completing the program.