This is disturbing.
The principal defended himself after telling a parent that he “can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event”
. The mom of a student at Spanish River High School started off with a simple question for Principal William Latson — she wanted to know how the Holocaust was being taught at the school.She started out simply wanting to ensure that the school was making Holocaust education “a priority” and Latson’s response was concerning.
through a public records request. “And you have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs.” He told her he had “the role to be politically neutral but support all groups in the school.”
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