Red Ribbon Week

As a classroom teacher Red Ribbon Week was very uninspiring. How do you teach living alcohol free, drug free, and substance free for a week of the school year and then not speak a word the rest of the year?


A good school will have Red Ribbon Week activities, the most common are Drug Free assembly Monday, poster making Tuesday, information Wednesday, make a pledge Thursday, wear red Friday. A great school will continue the message throughout the year. Teachers need to make a commitment to teach health and wellness throughout the school year. The long term effects of weekly lessons about character, wise decisions, peer pressure, healthy choices, etc, are far greater then those of Red Ribbon Week.

Parents get involved and ask questions about what your child is learning. The more we teach our children and continue the discussion past Red Ribbon Week the greater chance your words will be carried with them.

PS- Here are some good Red Ribbon Week lessons for Kinder-12th grade.