Would you rather pay $10.99, the average cost for a box of condoms, or $241,000, the average cost of raising a child?  This is the decision that many teens must make when preparing to engage in sexual activity. However the problem today is that some teens do not have the opportunity to obtain condoms. This could be because kids don’t have the money to buy condoms, or the fact that they don’t know how to go about purchasing them. This causes a lot of teens to have sex without a condom, which is very dangerous due to the high chances of getting pregnant or getting an STD. This should never be an option that teens look to because condoms are something that should be given out in all high schools throughout Montgomery County.

   If condoms were given out in high schools across the county, then kids wouldn’t have to worry about not being able to afford a condom, or not knowing where to get one from because they would be provided by the school. A student could walk in the nurse’s office, ask for a condom, and be given one without any questions being asked. This would make it a lot easier for teens to perform safe sex.

    “I think it would help a lot of teens because we would have easier access to them. We wouldn’t have to worry about going to the store and getting them. They would be at school for us to have for free,” Junior Brian Lancaster said.

   Some say that condoms should not be given out in school because they promote sex, and that students will be tempted to have sex if condoms are provided for them. This is not the case. If students are not having sex, then providing condoms will not sway them to start doing it. However having a condom could stop a person who is sexually active from getting a girl pregnant or getting an STD. When you provide a student with a condom, you are not only saving one person, you are saving three. The two people who are having sex, but also the child that will be born into a life of struggle because the parents are too young to give the baby what it needs. This is a crime in and of itself and it can be stopped by providing one latex condom.

    The amount of students getting pregnant at springbrook has gone up from years in the past, which increases the need for condoms at school.

   “The number of students getting pregnant in Springbrook is definitely rising,” School Nurse said.

    We can slow the progress of the epidemic of teen pregnancy by providing students with one thing. County schools should make the right choice and help students perform safe sex.