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2019-07-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

South FL principal apologizes for telling parent, ‘I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event’

[BIZPACREVIEW] A South Florida high school principal told a parent he "can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event."

Spanish River High School Principal William Latson made the remarkable comment in an email to the mother of a student while discussing history curriculum, according to The Palm Beach Post.

"Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened," Latson wrote in the email, adding that lessons are "not forced upon individuals as we all have the same rights but not all the same beliefs."

The principal explained that the school holds annual Holocaust assemblies and one-day lessons for 10th graders.

"We advertise it to the 10th grade parents as their [sic] are some who don’t want their children to participate and we have to allow them the ability to decline," Latson said.

The mother, who wished to remain anonymous, reportedly countered, "The Holocaust is a factual, historical event. It is not a right or a belief."

Posted by Fred 2019-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 "Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened,"

"As true academics therefore, it behooves us to maintain an amorphous kind of worldview, suspended between belief and disbelief. It doesn't matter what actually happened, since our perceptions shape the universe after all."

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 03:42|| 2019-07-08 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Principals comments seem fair enough to me. Some people still believe in marxism. It would be nice to warn children about the lesson of mass murder it inspired.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-07-08 04:13|| 2019-07-08 04:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Gerbil worming and 24 genders are settled science, OTOH..

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-08 06:20|| 2019-07-08 06:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Can you say that slavery in America is a factual, historical event? The last surviving slaves and thus witness to the acts were and are white American soldiers captured with the surrender of the Philippines in 1942, part of an army that was segregated at the time. They were sent to Japanese factories as slave laborers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-08 07:32|| 2019-07-08 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Some people are so stupid they cannot be reconstituted even with beatings.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-08 08:32|| 2019-07-08 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 But Climate Change "Science" is settled

Posted by Frank G 2019-07-08 09:17|| 2019-07-08 09:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Again, there is no cure for STUPID!

Posted by SR-71 2019-07-08 14:18|| 2019-07-08 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 "Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened,"

While a lot of them have passed on, I suspect the GIs that liberated the camps would be happy to debate that proposition with him. You are entitled to your own opinions and beliefs, but not your own facts.

Posted by SteveS 2019-07-08 15:23|| 2019-07-08 15:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Being one of the first units into Dachau, and what he saw, caused my Dad PTSD nightmares for years.

He never talked about it when awake and cried out while asleep.

It was very real for him.

F* this guy.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-07-08 16:27|| 2019-07-08 16:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, based on the current academic thinking, I cannot say that Democrats are humans. They claim to be, but we all know how they lie and some of them claim to be other things too.

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-07-08 18:35|| 2019-07-08 18:35|| Front Page Top

#11 And two can play their game with that, cause if they can't say the Holocaust occurred, how do we know slavery did? I never saw it.

/s (Sad that I even have to say that. Unlike them, I admit history exists. I just had no part of it before I was born and take no credit nor blame)

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-07-08 18:37|| 2019-07-08 18:37|| Front Page Top

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