Should birth control be discussed and provided to students at schools?

One of the biggest controversies that is disputed is whether or not birth control should be distributed to students who ask for it. "Sixty-seven percent support giving contraceptives to students, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. About as many - 62 percent - said they believe providing birth control reduces the number of teenage pregnancies." (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/01/health/main3439598.shtml) I agree that birth control should be provided to students who want it. I also think that the student should have to have at least a discussion with their parents about what they are considering; somewhat of a mandatory meeting with someone in the school system, the parent, and student. Whether or not the parent agrees, their child is going to do what they want regardless and I can almost say 100% that the parent would rather their child be protected doing something they do not approve of then having sex unprotected. "Parents should be in on it," said Jennifer Johnson, 29, of Excel, Alabama, a homemaker and mother of a school-age child. "Birth control is not saying you can have sex, it's protecting them if they decide to." (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/01/health/main3439598.shtml) This statement is true and very smart. Just because contraceptives are provided at will does not mean "Go and have sex." It is simply giving the student a decision to be smart. It is showing them that abstinence (which seems unrealistic to most students) is not the one and only choice you have to make. It is proven that teen pregnancies have decreased since "those saying sex education and birth control were better for reducing teen pregnancies outnumber people preferring morality and abstinence by a slim 51 percent to 46 percent." I believe that students should have the option to access birth control through their schools because it is only protecting them. By explaining to them the correct ways to use birth control, it will not be taken advantage of but it will definitely help them.