“It’s a big flop,” said Jerry Kowal, a senior at Solomon Schecter High School in Hartsdale, N.Y., referring to Palin’s campaign to get teens to abstain from sex.

“I don’t think it’s her real opinion,” the 17-year-old told ABCNews.com. “She’s just trying to help her mother. She said it herself that abstinence education doesn’t work. I looked it up.”…

“I don’t get it,” said Raina Brot, 15, from the Beacon School in Manhattan. “She’s being kind of a hypocrite.”