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An average of 54% of high school students in any given school have had sexual intercourse (Haffner). If these teens all attended the same junior high school, then they probably have been exposed to the same sexual education, whether it be abstinence-based or based on informing kids of how to act safely and make informed decisions in a sexual situation. If they received abstinence education then it is apparent that, for the most part, it failed. If they were taught a curriculum based on learning how to protect oneself, then they are at least prepared with the knowledge of how to practice safe sex. Since it is inevitable that many teens will be sexually active, it is futile to only teach them to abstain. We need to include sexuality education in addition to stressing abstinence so teens can be armed with the knowledge of how to protect themselves if they choose to be sexually active, which many obviously have. Many lawmakers and parents today believe that public schools should be teaching something called abstinence education. This is to take the place of sex education, in which students learn about reproductive physiology, birth control techniques, and other important facts one must know in order to act as a healthy and inf