6. National D.A.R.E. Day Continues today
When the D.A.R.E. program first started in Los Angeles during the early 1980s, it was hard to find critics. Most people believed the program would become successful and supported it. Politicians loved the idea of D.A.R.E. so much that President Ronald Reagan established a “National D.A.R.E. Day” in 1988.
Reagan stated the main reason he established this day was so the nation could celebrate how the D.A.R.E. program helped over one million children since it started. The first National D.A.R.E. Day occurred on September 15, 1988. While it is not as big of a holiday now, many schools still do something special for it.
