Tel-Chai Nation

A Florida school which recently had a scandal involving an anti-semitic teacher who was rehired after initially being fired has wisely chosen to dismiss him again:

The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) on Monday praised the Palm Beach County School Board’s decision to terminate the employment of a high school principal in the wake of troubling comments he made concerning the Holocaust.

The board voted unanimously to remove William Latson, the principal of Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, from his position after he told a parent several years ago that he “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” and insinuated that the Holocaust was a “belief,” rather than an actual event.

Latson was fired last year as a result of his controversial remarks, but he appealed the termination and an administrative law judge determined that the school board should not have fired him without first reprimanding him. After voting last month to reinstate Latson, the school board scheduled another vote for this week, at which time the board reversed its earlier decision and voted 7-0 to remove him.

“Holocaust denial is a vile form of anti-Semitism and it is unconscionable that a high school principal would legitimize it by positing that the occurrence of the Holocaust is a question of faith and not of historical fact,” said NCYI President Farley Weiss, who lives in Boca Raton, FL.

“Mr. Latson was responsible for overseeing Holocaust education at his school and yet he felt that the Holocaust was a matter of factual dispute. The refusal of Mr. Latson to duly acknowledge the heinous barbarism of the Nazis and recognize the extraordinarily documented fact that six-million innocent people were brutally murdered during the Holocaust sadly furthers the terrible and extremely painful fabrication that is propagated by hate-filled Holocaust deniers that one of the darkest chapters in world history did not actually occur. Educators such as Mr. Latson cannot be enabled to sidestep the issue of the Holocaust by turning a blind eye to history and ignoring the unimaginable and indescribable pain and anguish that befell the Jewish people, and we therefore commend the members of the Palm Beach County School Board for their decision to terminate him.”

I'm glad they came to their senses. There's also no need to put money into the pockets of such a despicable man, and people like him aren't suited to work in the education industry.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, germany, Moonbattery, United States