Every year, thousands of babies are born to young people with very little to possibly no education about condom use. Many parents do not educate their children about sex so the burden nearly falls on the schools to protect their students from the unwanted which maybe dropping out or caring for a child while trying to educate themselves. Some of us remember the day that our mom and/or dad gave us the embarrassing speech about the “birds and the bees.” Some may have found it quite disturbing that our parents were talking to us about it, but you were truly lucky if you did have the conversation and actually discussed it. Unfortunately, there are many children that fail to receive the awkward but valuable conversation about sex. Should high schools distribute condoms is one of today’s growing arguments. Should schools take the responsibility and make it easy for teens to obtain a condom? Should schools encourage safe sex or only push for abstinence? Theses may be some of the questions that may raise an eyebrow to the many parents or to the community as a whole. By looking around at today’s environment, it looks clear that teenagers are having sex and having life altering results such as contacting a STD and/or becoming a teen parent. If more people would open their eyes, they would see that teen pregnancy is here and is here to stay, but schools could possibly be a help to eliminate or to reduce the number of outcomes this by distributing condoms. It often appears that a teen’s decision to have sex is less complex than it really is. When in fact there are many factors that affect such important decisions such as religious beliefs, peer pressure, friends, morals, family values, and most important, overall individual personalities. With there being so many components that has influences on the choice we make, it is hard to claim that one such factor will push us towards one side or the other. Having the availability of condoms is only a small portion of the process. The risks that come along with unprotected sex are very well known; there is pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV which eventually will lead to death. Having safe sex is the only way to prevent any of these catastrophes. "If you look at the number of new cases of sexually transmitted diseases in this country, 25 percent of them are in the adolescent population," says Dr. David Kaplan (Eisner). It would be better to make a defense against unsafe activities available to adolescents. Since the use of condoms can nearly wipe out these afflictions, it makes sense to promote safe sex to those that need it the most, which are high school students. “When used properly and consistently, condoms are 98 percent effective in preventing pregnancy. This means that in one year’s time, about two couples out of 100 that uses condoms will have an unintended pregnancy. Massachusetts, wh