MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Florida school removes principal who wouldn’t describe the Holocaust as ‘factual’

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Late last week, I reported on a Florida principal’s who could not saythat the Holocaust was a historical fact. I asked readers to sign the petition for the removal of the holocaust denying Florida principal. It worked. First and foremost, I applaud the parents, the mother, who refused to accept the left’s systematic academic antisemitism. One person can make a difference

Florida school removes principal who wouldn’t describe the Holocaust as ‘factual’

A high school in Boca Raton, Florida, removed a principal who told a parent that he needed to remain neutral on whether or not the Holocaust occurred.

The Palm Beach County School District said in a statement Monday that it was aware of remarks made by William Latson in 2018 and had instructed him to expand Holocaust curriculum at Spanish River Community High School and spend time at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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“Despite these efforts, his leadership has become a major distraction for the school community. It is, therefore, in the best interest of students and the larger school community to reassign Mr. Latson to a District position,” the school district said in a statement on Monday.

Latson told the mother of a student a year ago that “Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.” In a follow-up email exchange, he responded that “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in the position to do so as a school district employee.”

His comments drew wide media coverage after The Palm Beach Post reported on them on Friday.

The school, which has about 2,500 students, is said to have one of the largest Jewish student populations in the county, according to the report.

Latson, who had his job since 2011, apologized in a statement to the Post, saying his email “did not accurately reflect my professional and personal commitment to educating all students about the atrocities of the Holocaust.”

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Bill
Bill
4 years ago

History deniers have no business anywhere near schools. That also includes school district jobs. He belongs in another trade, not re-assignment.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill

This war can be won
– but eradicating tyrant culture is like ‘dandelion management’
– it’s important to eradicate early
– before they get too numerous
– that’s why the Founders had zero tolerance for tyrants

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Rot is more deep seated. Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around.

CNN and MSM canonises this pro-jihadi/pro-illegal immigration RINO while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle east https://tinyurl.com/y9hk3dpk

Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill

If shoe was on another foot he would be fired on the spot. At least.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill

All the foolish school board is doing is “re-assigning” his ignorance and gross stupidity.

Elaine Blackman
Elaine Blackman
4 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

And probably giving him a promotion to do that.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago

Probably white liberals behind it, the most gutless, spineless imbeciles known to man (and woman!)

Elaine Blackman
Elaine Blackman
4 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

I didn’t realize you were a racist. I’ll remove my upvote from your generic post that’s actually sane.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago

LOL. An amazing deduction. You are a comedian I take it?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

But did they “remove” him from the school district or just transfer him to another school at the same salary?

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
4 years ago

Reassigned.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

He should’ve been fired, now he can ply his trade of Holocaust denial somewhere else in the public “educational” system.

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

But he still will be in the school district. What does it mean “reassigned” in this case? He shouldn’t be even close to children. Not reassigned. Fired!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  tatka150

I agree, if he had been white I’m sure he would’ve been sacked already.

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago

No doubts about it.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

He should have been fired! He’s not interested in educating, only in advancing his political agenda. Fire his butt.

Elaine Blackman
Elaine Blackman
4 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

Or promoted.

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago

You can be antisemitic, but not racist. Interesting approach. That’s why America goes down the tube now with all this bullshit. If you are not white, you are protected from any possible crime. Holocaust deniers are criminals same as Nazi. He should rot in hell. Soon.

Elaine Blackman
Elaine Blackman
4 years ago

Who says it wasn’t a higher salary. My husband was good at his county job. When it came time for promotions he wanted, the ones who weren’t good got them. (Peter Principle — Promote beyond the level of incompetence.)

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago

Reality eventually overcomes affirmative action, diversity and liberal PC.

You’re firing me because I’m Black!?

No, we hired you because you’re black.
We’re firing you because you’re ig’nate and useless!

Maranatha
Maranatha
4 years ago

Now. ”that is factual”. Gone.
Happy now little guy?

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
4 years ago
Reply to  Maranatha

Unfortunately, he was apparently just reassigned. Still has a job with the school district and a tax payer funded paycheck.

Crystal Waters
Crystal Waters
4 years ago

It would have been better to insist the principal debate the Holocaust museum director on video and in front of the students while bringing all available evidence to bare. A teachable moment was wasted here.

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago
Reply to  Crystal Waters

It is never too late to take children to Holocaust museum. It should not be relvant to the antisemite idion principal. I would included such a field trip in the school program. They instead would rather include the sexual education from 3 yrs old. Cretins.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
4 years ago

don’t get too giddy. the district cannot fire a black principal…they’ll probably make him the superintendent. you parents there need to watch where this guy lands next

MAS
MAS
4 years ago

One down, legions more to go…

Janet
Janet
4 years ago

Well glad to hear it! That man with his obvious anti-Semitism belongs nowhere near a school let alone the principal of a high school. I put that petition up on my Facebook page and asked people to sign it. Don’t know if anyone did but I tried because I was outraged when I was reading the story. How can anyone in this day and age when history is right at your fingertips, if you look online, with videos and all, say such a horrendous thing. Talk about ignorance at it’s highest!

Underzog
Underzog
4 years ago

Let this be a lesson to other imbeciles who think they can pander to eliminationist antisemites.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

Bye-bye, you jerk. Bet you wanna sue now, huh?

And if you put too much people on Guam it will tilt.

Bikinis not Burkas
Bikinis not Burkas
4 years ago

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago

Good! Now let’s remove the thousands of traitor leftist teachers brainwashing our children.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

This jackwad was sitting at the wrong desk. It is obvious he never paid attention in class.

There is an old saying that those who can’t, teach. The corollary to that is that those who can’t teach, teach teachers.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago

What an idiotic and ignorant comment this Latson fool made! “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because…” – and here come the real beaut – “I am not in the position to do so as a school district employee.” Well then, idiot, get an education because without it you are not fit to be a principal. General Eisenhower, after discovery of the holocaust camps, instructed that as much film as possible be made because he foresaw that at some stage “some bastards” would come along and deny that it happened. Well, here you have one of those “bastards”. In my estimation, Latson does not want to acknowledge that it is a historical reality out of his personal prejudice and plain perversity. That is what decided his foolish and ignorant position. Who gave him his principal job in the first place?

AZ gal
AZ gal
4 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

His race got him the job. His race will prevent him from losing it.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago
Reply to  AZ gal

Yup, I’ve seen in Canada time and again. Dumb as a rock, but he got the job, and if he didn’t he, his entire family and community would blame racism. In fact reverse racism for him the job. A bit like voting in Obama, some to prove they weren’t racist, so his racism turned out okay.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

The teachable lesson is the Holocaust is just not some historical event but a real threat to Jews as well as Christians in that there is a political cult masquerading as a religion who would repeat the same horrific tragedy on a much larger scale today. The Holocaust may have occurred 70 years ago and he Armenian and Greek Genocide a hundred years ago, but there remains today as great a threat or even greater than in the past.

AZ gal
AZ gal
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Name the threat: ISLAM.

RetiredNavyphotog
RetiredNavyphotog
4 years ago

I knew even before I saw his photo.

Carl
Carl
4 years ago

“””… Re-Assigned…””” . . . REASSIGNED!!! . . STILL on the payroll at TAXPAYER expense. . . When are they gonna DRAG HIS ASS to Dachau, let him sit in one of the ovens, SMELL that glorious aroma of BURNED FLESH, view the beautiful memorial gardens fertilized with ashes of thousands of victims, see the rope-burns on the beams above??? THERE’S your “holocaust” Mr. “Principal” . . . Parents, this guy, the super, and the WHOLE BOARD needs to GO! (be fired-removed from employment!) . . . PRONTO und schnell!

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago

Strike three, he is out and good riddance, far from the madding crowd.

Tiger
Tiger
4 years ago

This is a trend throughout the world. It is just one more lie we have to take care of. Throughout this world and in America, history is being either NOT told or Rewritten. Truth is Death to a lie. Hitler’s PR man Joseph Goebbels was all about the big lie.

We are in a World War and I don’t understand just what it is going to take for all people to see it. I am proud for this win. I live in Florida. We are filled with Muslims and many who hate America. CAIR rules here, D’Santis hasn’t done anything about them yet or the Sanctuary cities. I have complete Faith he will and much more.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

WELL, more time for antifacomment image

Defence Man
Defence Man
4 years ago

My spirits are lifted knowing that at least one leftist educator has received a punishment for his attempt to re write history. Everyone should take notice.

Marc
Marc
4 years ago

Mr. Latson suffers from massive cognitive dissonance. He is unable to distinguish between the inner & outer worlds
and to judge his own reflection. Otherwise he would at least have a slight idea what Himmler, Hitler, Heydrich & Goe-bbels would have done with him. At any rate not decorated with the highest orders as a member of the “Aryan race”.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
4 years ago

A clean sweep should be done threw out our entire educational system to rid of the sludge that pollutes our young minds !

Kwitcherbellyakin
Kwitcherbellyakin
4 years ago

Re-assignment is not the same as being fired. He is still getting a salary.

Elaine Blackman
Elaine Blackman
4 years ago

It sounds to me like he might have been promoted instead. That’s usually what district jobs are. It almost seems that most governmental bureaucracies are pretty much the same. Don’t fire to get rid of them because the unions will object, so promote them.

Dr. Karl Stalin
Dr. Karl Stalin
4 years ago

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linda goudsmit
linda goudsmit
4 years ago

Principal Latson’s “removal” is a dubious victory – he was reassigned not fired. Latson is still free to propagandize the next group of impressionable students with his antisemitic misinformation. Historical revisionism is a serious educational crime because it deceitfully shapes the opinions of future voters. Latson does not belong in any school – he is unfit to serve and should be fired.

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
4 years ago

He chooses “not to believe”t the Holocaust occurred? This is not a religious miracle, this is a historical event that has been recorded in countless books and in millions of photographs. That is why ,I believe it was the president at the time said take plenty of photographs because somewhere down the road people are going to deny that this actually happened.

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