Drug Abuse Resistance Education Canada
Drug Abuse Resistance Education Canada
Bullying has always been a serious problem. While its unclear if social cruelty has actually gotten worse in recent years or if we’re just more aware of it because of increased attention, the current ‘War on Bullying’ trending up in popularity.
You might suppose that with so many passionate advocates working to fix the problem that there would be some major headway. Between the new laws, programs and policies, you might guess that bullies are on the run.
Before we take a look at the record of school-based anti-bullying policies, let’s take examine the D.A.R.E. program for a parallel example.
* The anti-drug movement was at a flash point in the 80′s, the anti-bully movement has been gaining momentum and is a hot topic now
* There was a wide base of political and popular support for any law or program that promised a solution (DARE seemed to fit the bill). Anti-bullying legislation and school programs make identical promises.
* Both DARE and school-based anti-bully programs are created / presented by ‘experts’
* Media attention helped create and intensify an anti-drug mania. Similarly, news coverage of multi-million dollar verdicts in anti-bully law suits, and the portrait of spree-killers rampaging through schools as ‘troubled, bullied outcasts’ helps to fuel the anti-bully campaign.
The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program features ‘friendly police officers’ who warn young students about the dangers of illegal drugs, as well as tobacco and alcohol and is now taught in over 75% of US school districts. Its preposterously simplistic philosophy (“just say no!”) and lame curriculum (scare tactics, positive mantras and student pledges) raised questions since from its inception in 1983. Today, numerous studies have provided hard statistical evidence that DARE is an abysmal failure; the program has zero impact on its graduates rate of drug usage as compared to peers. The data revealing DARE’s complete inadequacy is so overwhelming that the General Accounting Office, the Department of Education and the Surgeon General’s Office have all labeled the program as a gargantuan flop. (A stunningly expensive flop, too – its squandered over $200 billion!)
Back to the anti-bully programs infiltrating school systems across America and around the world.
Dr. David Smith, PhD, of the University of Ottawa, conducted a meta analysis of all available research studies regarding the effectiveness of whole-school anti-bullying programs. His results, published in the School Psychology Review (2004 issue) are clear:
* 14% of victim outcome reports showed a minor positive benefit
* 86% of victim outcome reports were negligible or negative
* 100% of self-reporting bully outcome reports demonstrated negligible / negative effects
In 2007, another meta analysis out of Texas A&M International University reviewed school-based bully prevention and intervention programs and came to the conclusion that overall, they showed “little discernible effect.”
Vreeman and Carroll published a review of 26 school-based anti-bully programs in 2007 issue of the Achieves of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Only 3 could point to consistent reduction in bullying.
Dr. Wendy Craig, author, researcher, speaker and professor of psychology at the prestigious Queen’s University in Canada, reports in her study that in 15% of schools with comprehensive anti-bullying problems actually experienced the problems get worse.
There are several anti-bully programs that testify how fantastic they are, and claim to have the documentation to prove it. Where does this evidence come from? Not surprisingly, from the very same companies that produce and market those programs. This kind of back patting self-assessment is a little shady, and might be viewed with the same wariness as a child who grades his own report card or employee who writes his own performance review.
Just like the avaricious politicians, hysterical crusaders and un-informed ‘feel-good’ supporters who continue to champion the DARE program in spite of its losing record, the anti-bully movement is happily marching into the same ocean.
Fortunately, there is a better plan.
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