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Teacher suspended over AIDS video

United Press International - Thursday, February 11, 1999


ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 11 (UPI) -- An Orange County high school television production teacher has been suspended with pay after a video featuring an animated condom talking about AIDS was broadcast schoolwide.

The unauthorized video, which was made by students, starred a character named Mr. Condom who confronts a dying AIDS victim and tells him he should have worn a condom.

Joseph Petruzzi, the TV production teacher, was said to have "had a role" in the broadcasting of the video.

One Edgewater High School student who saw the video said his classmates were mostly amused but added, "I could see how some people would have gotten upset."
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