This issue is obviously very complicated, and certainly there are too many factors for a simple yes or know answer to suffice, but I feel that this side best characterizes my position.

Giving 5th graders condoms is clearly not a good idea because (hopefully) no 5th grader is sexually active. At the same time, making it more difficult for high school kids older than 16 to get condoms is only going to lead to more unwanted pregnancies, and the spread of STDs. In addition, just giving someone a condom isn't going to have any meaningful affect on whether or not they have sex. Does anyone honestly believe the only thing keeping high school virgins from getting laid is the fact that they don't have a condom? Does anyone actually think that not giving high school kids condoms is going to stop them from having sex if they were going to already? If you are unsure about the answer to the second question, I would advise you to look at U.S. teen pregnancy rates...rates that are higher among evangelical christians who tend to be taught abstenence only in their home (source)

Therefore, condoms should be readily available to people who are old enough to be sexually active (16 and older). Maybe not passing condoms around in class, but having them available upon request in the student health center.

Years ago, one of last times I entered a church, I heard the minister criticize the teaching of proper condom use in schools. I think now of how foolish he was. Teens want sex. Period. The only thing that'll keep them from illness is by using condoms - they'll continue having sex without condoms, of course, but it would be much less frequently than if they had absolutely no access to said condoms.

We all know that at a certain age all young men think about is sex! with or with out protection so Condoms should be available to High school age young men and woman, maybe not passed out at lunch but available at the nurse office or guidance office

If public education is going to teach safe sex education, then curiosity is struck, and it may appear to the teenagers that the adults are suggesting approval of sex, so the school should include the distribution of condoms.

I'd rather my kids have them and not need them than need them and not have them. Teens that aren't sexually active will use them as balloons, teens that are will use them as required.