![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, rates of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia increased sharply in 2015-2016. Teen pregnancy in the city has gone down overall, but in the Bronx it is still 75 percent higher than the rest of the city. It’s unclear how, if at all, this has changed sexual behavior of teenagers. ![]() The Sexuality Education Alliance of New York City (SEANYC) surveyed more than 300 students and found that only 64.5 percent of them had received any sex ed classes in school. New York State requires one semester of health taught during middle school years, but only 57 percent of eighth graders had taken it, according to the report. It found, among other things, that 88 percent of middle and high schools don’t have a teacher licensed for health education, 28 percent of middle schools don’t have a teacher assigned to teach health, and a whopping 97 percent of middle and high school health instructors are not licensed. Back in September of 2017, the New York City Comptroller’s office released a report about the state of health education and sex ed in New York. ![]()
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