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Biography

Officer Akard is from the Paris area and is a 1989 Prairiland High School graduate.  His law enforcement career started in 1995 with the Paris Police Department.  In August 2003, he was assigned to the patrol division of the police department and as a North Lamar ISD School Resource Officer.
 

NLISD Assignment

Officer Akard teaches Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) classes to 5th grade students at Bailey Intermediate and Parker Elementary.  The DARE program is a 10 week program that centers around the importance of making good decisions.  It covers topics such as the harmful effects of tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, and inhalants and also covers friendships and peer pressure.  When not teaching DARE, Officer Akard visits Higgins, Everett, Bailey, and Parker campuses to meet with the Kindergarten through 4th grade classes to help build the relationship between the younger students and the resource officers. 

 

Schedule

Day Time Campus Class
Monday 9:00 a.m. Parker Bailey/Hutchison
  11:00 a.m. Bailey Bramhall
  11:45 a.m. Bailey Weemes
Tuesday 11:00 a.m. Bailey Collard
  11:45 a.m. Bailey Freeman
Wednesday 11:00 a.m. Bailey Compton
  11:30 a.m. Bailey Dority
Thursday 11:00 a.m. Bailey Fleming
  11:45 a.m. Bailey Kampfer
Friday 9:00 a.m. Bailey Preston
 

Lesson Topics

  1. DARE and Class Rules

  2. Tobacco

  3. Tobacco Advertising and Marijuana

  4. Alcohol

  5. Alcohol Advertising and Inhalants

  1. Friendships and Peer Pressure

  2. Role play response to peer pressure

  3. DARE report

  4. Games and Review

 
 

Additional Class Activities

  • Handcuffs - are used to demonstrate the limitations of movement.  Students have fun attempting to get their hands uncuffed.                            

  • Role models - from Stone Middle School and North Lamar High School visit with DARE students.

 

  • Drunk Goggles - simulate the effects of impairment, including reduced alertness, slowed reaction time, confusion, visual distortion, alteration of depth and distance perception, reduction of peripheral vision, poor judgment and decision making, double vision, and lack of muscular coordination.

    The simulation of the effects of impaired driving. 

  • Smokey Sue - smokes a cigarette by pumping the bulb mechanism. The tars from the cigarette collect in her collection tube 'lungs' which may be removed and inspected for an effective lesson.

                                                                                                 

                                            

 

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