Boca Raton, FL – A high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida told a parent that inquired about the school’s educational plan for teaching the Holocaust that “Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.”
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Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson in an email in April 2018 first told the parent, that “the curriculum is to be introduced but not forced upon individuals as we all have the same rights but not all the same beliefs.”
The exchange of emails was first reported by the Palm Beach Post, which obtained the emails through a public records request.
When the parent, who is not named in the report to protect the identity of her child, asked the principal to clarify his remarks, telling him that the Holocaust is a “factual, historical event,” he doubled down saying: “you have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs.” He said that as a school district employee he cannot take a position on the Holocaust.
The school with about 2,500 students is said to have one of the county’s largest Jewish student populations in the county, according to the report.
In a statement to The Post, Latson, who has been principal since 2011, apologized, saying his email “did not accurately reflect my professional and personal commitment to educating all students about the atrocities of the Holocaust.”
The school’s educational offerings on the Holocaust exceed the state’s requirements, according to Latson, though not all of the offerings actually take place in the classroom. The parent proposed a change, adopted this school year, which has every 10th grader read “Night” by Elie Wiesel.
Latson was not disciplined for his emails.
This is not newsworthy at a time when the US president actually said that the nazis that did a torchlight parade in Virginia were ‘fine people’. That defining comment relwcts the president is an unpatriotic mental midget and a Holocaust denier, like this ignorant principal.
I think his picture should explain his position
Someone told me that there NEVER was any Black slavery.
The theory is that Blacks were jealous of the white neighbors and snuck into the white mans house
and cotton fields to see how the whites lived.
I hope they don’t teach slavery as a fact…it’s just an opinion…
וואס ווייסן מאלפעס
He must be a Trump Chump who agrees with the president that there are some very fine people on both sides of that issue.
What does one expect from this individual; there are many like him. This is the gratitude which we receive, from marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, participating in freedom rides, helping disenfranchised citizens to vote, and otherwise fighting for civil rights. This is what is known as Yiddisha nachas.
Typical democrat
Perhaps this piece of DREK needs to speak to a few of the remaining survivors who live in Boca Raton. And then visit the Polish murder camp auschwitz.
If this piece of drek only knew how much Hitler hated anyone that he thought was different from him not just Jews but also anyone with mental issues and anyone that he didn’t consider to be a member of the aryan race including n****rs like him. First they came for the… and then they came for me and there was no one left to protest.
then he wouldn’t be talking like that
Facts are true , their is no ‘belief’ system in facts Evidently this principal is mixed up to equate a fact as a belief,I.E. He may believe that the earth is flat, however the fact is otherwise.If he is a principal of a school , the educational system is a failure.
The principal, to be kind, is a moron. This is the quality of leader of a public school? I wonder if he teaches about slavery, or maybe some one, somewhere, thinks it never happened.