On Friday, Tritan graduated from the D.A.R.E. program at school. The whole program is a far cry from what I remember. We had an afternoon assembly; they had a 3 month program conducted by a resource officer and they had to complete a workbook and write an essay. The graduation was held with all the grandiosity and solemnity of a real graduation. They sent invitations to the parents (I wrote the date down wrong in my planner and showed up a day early--embarrassing, but at least it was a day early, not a day late), all the kids and teachers were wearing the same brown D.A.R.E. T-shirts, and each of them had their named called and they walked across the stage and received their certificate of completion. The mayor was there, and spoke to them, and they had a slide show presentation of candid shots of them working on their D.A.R.E. workbooks. Afterwards, they had a party in the cafeteria. Tritan was obviously proud of himself and it was fun to see him so excited.
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