The annual DARE curriculum taught by Clinton Police Chief Ben Lowers and School Resource Officer Mike Bennett is wrapping up soon at Clinton Elementary School.

Chief Lowers indicates the 10-lesson curriculum is coming to a close with DARE projects due soon. He points out the kids have gotten very creative with their projects especially as technology becomes a bigger part of them.

Friday is the DARE graduation at Clinton Elementary School and before graduation, the fifth-grade halls are open to family to come to see the projects while other students in the building get to check them out too.

The program also brings in a panel of DARE role models that get in front of the fifth graders and answer questions about peer pressure things they faced in junior high and high school and the Chief says a lot of fifth-graders ask about the jump to the junior high school.

The Chief has always been impressed with the students he gets to be in front of. While the scope of the topics that DARE covers has changed over the years, the students are very receptive to the things he brings to them.