Ex-principal in Holocaust furor defends his right not to say the genocide is a fact [The Palm Beach Post]
Former Spanish River High Principal William Latson defended his refusal to call the Holocaust a historical fact, saying opinions on whether the genocide occurred are a “personal ideology” and that it was his job to be tolerant of people who didn’t believe.
While acknowledging the Holocaust was a real event, the ousted principal said Monday that some parents at his school did not agree, and that state law required him to show “tolerance” in dealing with them.
That tolerance, he said, was a main reason for his decision to tell a school parent in April 2018 that as an educator he had “the role to be politically neutral” and that he “can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event.”
The school is, of course, in Florida. Slogan: “The WTF? State.”