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Newspaper
Matteson Star
Location
Matteson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1998
Page
11
A recent study claims that students who experience DARE are more likely to use drugs, blaming police delivered instruction. The piece defends officers’ role, noting they follow a fixed curriculum written by others and praise their community impact.
Parents and taxpayers should appreciate police officers who enter schools to persuade students to stay off drugs. They did not sign on to teach, yet their presence benefits students as a timely example and deterrent.
A broad, ongoing push beyond DARE is urged with parents teachers and schools taking lead roles. Parents should supervise and discuss drugs informing children, while schools enforce no use policies and SAPs guide help. Community members should support zero tolerance and police involvement where needed.
A reader from Chicago Heights counters Alderman McCoy’s March Star letter, urging cooperation with the council and rejecting racial innuendo. The writer cites immigrant parents, calls for positive youth programs, and questions McCoy and Kevin Perkins’s commitments while urging resignation if not aligned with council goals.
Editorial in the Star defends Bloom High School’s careful planning of an African American Culture Club program. It notes months of work by students and sponsor Mrs Leeper, including Swahili and English performances, and condemns a single insensitive remark that misrepresented the effort and “Bloom firsts” research.
Five years after an MS diagnosis the writer shares experiences from mild symptoms to wheelchair use. The message notes FDA drugs and trials, cites Annette Funicello’s MS story, and invites participation in the 1998 MS Walkathon on April 19 with registration or donation details via a Chicago area phone number. Sharon South Suburban Walkathon.
Douglas Carpenter president of the South Southwest Association of Realtors argues for real estate solicitation as free speech and a tool for listing creation. He notes 8,500 members trained in fair housing, cites federal appellate rulings upholding mass mailings and calls, and dismisses block busting claims while stressing nondeceptive ads and service value in marketing now tied to fair housing month.
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