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Principal Who Says He Tried to Stay ‘Politically Neutral’ About The Holocaust Is Removed
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” nyti.ms/2JmwnH4
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” nyti.ms/2JmwnH4
“Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened,” the principal, William Latson of Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton, Fla., wrote in an email exchange with an unidentified parent in April 2018.
He said that the school offered an assembly and courses on the Holocaust, but that they were optional and could not be “forced upon” all students.
Mr. Levin, of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, said that the Holocaust should be treated like other undebatable facts throughout history, from the Roman Empire to the Revolutionary War to slavery.
“We simply don’t let educators pick and choose what is a philosophical debate and what is not,” he said, adding: “There is no way to be politically correct about the Holocaust. It is a fact of life.”
