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Educator: Drug Messages in Music for Kids

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9 years ago

May 28, 2015

Exposure to DARE officers in school isn’t going to be enough to dissuade many young people from trying drugs. More classroom instruction on drug hazards might be needed, according to a La Crosse school district educator. Jon Baudek tells the heroin task force of La Crosse County that he’d like to see more information in school about the dangers of heroin and meth. Not so helpful…parents attempting to scare kids about marijuana. He says overemphasizing the dangers of marijuana rings hollows to kids who know better.

Baudek believes parents should pay more attention to the kind of music their children listen to, because so much of it includes references to drug use.

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Brad Williams

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.