Carroll condom class nixed

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An HIV-prevention program will not include lessons on condoms at a Carroll County alternative school for troubled teenagers, where pregnancy has been increasing, officials said.

Gateway School principal Bob Cullison and the county?s Health Department wanted to start a course called Making Proud Choices that stresses abstinence but also teaches how to use condoms, which county school board members said needed to be changed to fit with the county?s abstinence-based policies.

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