The question I have is do the teachers presenting this stuff in school realize that acknowledging that telling kids that people actually deliberately harm themselves and that it helps or relieves their emotional pain in some way, can give a child the insight to try this activity? I understand that drugs are so prevalent in society that the facts need to be presented because the exposure is inevitable. But cutting just seems to me not as mainstream. Kids are not necessarily going to see this behavior in prime time TV or the effects of it on the open street. It just seems like including this behavior as if it as prevalent and socially acceptable as drug, tobacco, and alcohol use doesn't seem to add up. I didn't expect cutting to be a topic in a elementary school DARE program.