He's not so sure it even happened.
His name is William Latson and he is principal at the charmingly-named Spanish River High School. Last year, he responded to an email from a student's mother asking for clarification on the level of Holocaust instruction at the school by saying that he couldn’t say the World War II genocide was “a factual, historical event.” And, as so many people do when advancing lunatic notions, he pointed his finger around the room, claiming that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.”
He might be right about that last part, because there is no way to count the gozzleheads who believe there was no Holocaust, that man has never walked on the moon and we are being duped by a gigantic Disney animation, and that the government hands out vaccines in order to track our very movements and control our thoughts.
I guess that for every insane notion that people can dream up, there will be fools to believe it.
Now, predictably, with people calling for his dismissal, Latson is making with the apologies. “I regret that the verbiage that I used when responding to an email message from a parent, one year ago, did not accurately reflect my professional and personal commitment to educating all students about the atrocities of the Holocaust,” is how he expressed his regret to a local newspaper.
That newspaper is the Palm Beach Post, and the article they published last week shows the email exchange between that parent and Latson, showing his statement that the Holocaust is something one believes as opposed to historical fact. The parent was asking about how the school teaches the Holocaust.
“The Holocaust isn’t a debatable point, it’s not philosophical,” Matthew Levin, CEO of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, told the paper. “I don’t think that in this particular case that the principal is denying the Holocaust per-se but he’s certainly asking questions that he should not be asking. It’s not his job to do anything but teach the facts and political correctness doesn’t get in the way of the facts.”
Apologies and denials pour out of Latson like water over a dam. He went on to tell the paper that he regretted what he wrote in that email, as it does not reflect his personal or professional views. So is he saying that since last year, when he wrote that stupid message, he has come to see that history is real? Or is he retreating for cover to save his job, his closely-held beliefs tucked into a pocket?
Frank Barbieri, chairman of the school board, issued a statement on Sunday to reaffirm the district’s commitment to Holocaust education, and saying the situation was being investigated at the highest level of the district.
Mr Barbieri can figure how a man can be in charge of the education of children and hold such unbelievable beliefs. I surely cannot.
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