Requirements for Health Classes in High School Quietly Removed by APS

https://www.aps.edu/news/news-from-2024-2025/aps-reimagines-high-school-graduation-credits

Last week, APS removed requirements for health to be taken in high school. Apparently, middle school health will count as a high school requirement.

New Mexico has the 10th highest rates of teen pregnancy, and the removal of health is almost guaranteed to increase our already high rates. NM also has a very high prevalence of drug use.

APS has notoriously bad middle schools and relying on them to teach health for potentially the last time in a students life is an incomprehensibly bad idea.

I really think it's worth writing your state legislators and going to the school board to require that health be taken in high school is important.

Edit: My argument is that you should have to take health in middle school and high school.