Abstinence vs. Sex education

Personally I feel that kids need to be taught about sex education. With the society that we live in today, we can't be that neive to believe that kids are not having sex. There is a television show on MTV dedicated to teenage mothers and being 16 and Pregnant. That is why I feel that abstinence only programs do not work. By teaching kids abou abstinence only, it is going to only increase their curiosity about sex and then they are going to experiment and try it, and then boom, we have another teenage girl having a baby. But if sex education is taught in school, they will know that there is a possibility of STD's and they will also know different methods of contraception such as birth control, condoms etc. So my personal view is that we need to implement a sex education program in the schools and get rid of the abstinence only program. I am from a small town and teenage pregnance used to be quite unheard of, now, there are at least 3 girls in my brothers junior class that are pregnant. How does your school fare?