Health Class ....shouldn't we teach kids about safety?

On the news today I heard that two eigth grade girls from Wood River were suspended for two days from their school on account of insubordination and violation of dress code. The teenagers were protesting abstinence-based sex education saying, the education they were being given on sex was simply not enough. The two girls showed up wearing tank tops that said "safe sex or no sex" with condoms pinned to them! Who thinks this is wrong? I completely agree with these girls.
The education they are giving us today in high school is not enough. They no longer teach you safe sex practices nor do they even offer a program or help for if you want to learn about them. How many children or how many of you when you were children, want to go and talk to your parents about that kind of thing? How uncomfortable! Children today would much rather have their teachers or someone else talk to them about these things. But its not just in Wood River, studies show that a sizable minority of schools do not teach the 4 basic topics of sex education: abstinence, birth control, HIV/AIDS and any other STD's. There are also some schools that do not teach sex education at all.
Another reason teachers say they should not teach comprehensive based education to students is that they believe the childrens doctors should answer these questions if they don't feel comfortable talking to their parents about it. So now we're supposed to make our parents call the doctor so that we can talk to someone confidently and ask questions about safe sex? And here I always thought my doctor was there to give me check-ups and physicals so I could play in sports!
Its things like this that make me wonder what's so wrong with some of the people in this world. What are we so afraid of? My little sister is in 9th grade and she's told me about the kids in her school already having sex. Along with my 7th grade neighbor! And yet, we don't think its right to teach our kids somehow a safe way to do these things? Many people feel that if the schools teach it, they are contradicting themselves and advertising that it is okay to have sex, as long as you do it safely. But many studies have proven that giving kids knowledge of safe sex practices and allowing them to talk about HIV/AIDS and other STD's or topics, has actually made them more comfortable and given them more confidence to say no.
In Europe they use comprehensive based sex-education and there teenage and unwanted pregnancy rate is significantly lower than ours. If it's effective in Europe, why don't we think that it would be effective in the United States? Just because you aren't teaching it in schools, doesn't mean that kids are not doing it. Isn't it even scarier to think that your children aren't being taught what the safe and right thing to do is if they are having sex, but are doing it anyways? That's where we end up with so many unwanted teenage pregnancies and even more abortions and its all because we think that we are protecting and preventing children from having sex because we are not teaching sex.