For many students, school and the faculty members inside influence many of their decisions. Peer pressure and the education provided by faculty heavily impacts the decisions of students when considering sexual intercourse. Acccording to the Guttmacher Institute, Teachers believe that safe sex practices and abstinence should be the main focus of sex education ("Sex Education…"). However, in reality the actual instruction has a heavy emphasis on the types of STDs rather than actual safe sex practices ("Sex Education…"). Teachers feel that "adverse community reaction" ("Sex Education…") prevents them from performing their duties of teaching safe sex practices to teenagers. Teachers are forced to teach curriculum decided by the district which has less of an emphasis on safe sex practices. As a result, teenagers receive less knowledge on safe sex, and perform unsafe sex. School is the largest institution where teenagers interact and becomes the "primary context for their development" ("The Science of…"). As a result, school has a heavy impact on the teenager causing them to be integrated into a certain social norm. Teenagers more susceptible to influence from their peers at school, may lead to unsafe sex. Communities in poverty will receive less sexual education leading to a higher unsafe sexual activity ("Adolescent Health"). In these communities, the schools receive less funding which leads directly to insufficient knowledge about safe sex being taught to the students. Schools that are not in poverty may provide opportunities to reduce unsafe sex through extracurricular activities ("Adolescent Health"). Schools and Teachers heavily influence the ideas and decisions of Students. Insufficient sexual education in schools will lead to higher sexual risk taking in students, which is dangerous. In order to prevent an increased risk rate, schools and teachers must provide a decent sex education program that encompasses all topics equally.