Bronx Teens Demand Sex Education In Schools
A group of 10 teenagers recently testified before the New York City Council and said that sex education should be mandatory in high schools in the Bronx borough of the city, the New York Daily News reports.
According to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the teen pregnancy rate is 137 pregnancies per 1,000 girls in the Bronx, compared with 99 pregnancies per 1,000 girls citywide.
Although the city Department of Education in October 2007 approved a new sex education curriculum, school principals choose whether to adopt it or not, the Daily News reports (Samuels, New York Daily News, 1/8).
The program encourages students to delay sexual activity but provides information about contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (Daily Women’s Health Policy Report, 10/22/07).
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