SEATTLE – Which decision requires a higher level of maturity to make: having sex or drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola? To Seattle school administrators, it’s the latter.

And they’re making it as convenient as possible to do the former, even allowing students to leave class to get free school-provided birth control.

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Chief Sealth International High School in the Seattle Public Schools district now dispenses long-acting reversible contraceptives to students.

Girls can receive it by simply being excused from class to visit the school’s health center for an appointment.

“Because we’re at the school, which is so wonderful, we have access to the students, and they have access to us, pretty much any time,” says Katie Acker, health educator with Neighborcare, which runs the clinic.

“We will send them a pass for whatever class is easiest or best to get out of. Of course, there are always students who are like, ‘I wanna miss IB Math!’ We are not gonna pull you out of IB Math — how about ceramics instead?”

The program is funded by Take Charge, a Washington State Medicaid program, as well as a city-wide “Families and Education” tax, Grist reports.

The adults running the program couldn’t be happier.

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“It’s absolutely amazing and crazy,” Acker gushes. “The birth control culture, for lack of a better term, and the conversations have just changed so much. Even for me, starting in September of 2013 to now, seeing the change — conversations are just happening so openly and so excitedly. There’s so much pride around, ‘I’ve got this method, I’ve got this method.’ It’s not a hush-hush thing anymore … So many students will come in and say, ‘Oh, my friend got the IUD, can I make an appointment?’”

But oftentimes, parents are unaware of the decisions school personnel are helping students make.

Of the three girls Grist writer Eve Andrews talked to, only one of them informed her parents.

“’Cause like, I’m really independent, so I don’t really talk to my parents about any of it,” one of the girls says. “So if I would’ve had to talk to my parents about the whole birth control thing, I probably wouldn’t [have it].”

While school administrators believe teenagers are mature enough to make these decisions, students are banned from buying soda and “unhealthy” snacks on school property.

In 2004, Seattle banned “sales of all foods containing high levels of sugar and fat,” according to a school press release.

“These policies make it clear that we are determined to provide our students with healthy food options,” then School Board Vice-President Brita Butler-Wall said. “We are committed to providing an environment at each school that maximizes students’ ability to learn and succeed. That includes ensuring that foods and beverages sold at schools are healthy and nutritious.”

But despite not being able to make that decision, girls say having the convenience of school-provided birth control has changed their lives.

“I think it’s easier to talk about sex,” one girl tells Grist. “And also talking to other people or making other people feel comfortable that they’re getting birth control, or that they’re having sex.”

“Now that I [have birth control], now that I’ve been told about all the different options, I feel like I have a little more knowledge about it,” another says. “So now if someone were to talk to me, I’d be a lot more comfortable because I do know about it, I have information about it.”

She adds that if the health care clinic wasn’t dispensing birth control, “It probably wouldn’t even have crossed my mind that that was an option.”