Green River Star -

Author photo

By David Martin
Editor 

Life R U Ready teaches students about the consequences of some decisions

 

David Martin

Eli Thomas, Levi Westberg and Oran Watts listen to a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper describe how a person unbuckled in the back of a vehicle can kill other occupants during a vehicle crash.

High school and middle school students from Green River learned that decisions like partying and inebriated driving can have lasting consequences at Life R U Ready last week.

Life R U Ready is a program funded by both cities as well as the United Way of Southwest Wyoming and the Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services that places teens in a simulation of a house party. After about half an hour the party is raided by police and the teens are handed consequence cards resulting from activities that commonly take place. For example, a girl may find out she was the victim of date ra...



For access to this article please sign in or subscribe.

 

Reader Comments(0)

 
 

Powered by ROAR Online Publication Software from Lions Light Corporation
© Copyright 2023