Judge: Reinstate Boca principal in Holocaust emails incident
by Eliot Kleinberg | Palm Beach Post
August 14, 2020
William Latson should be reinstated but reassigned from Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, which he had led since 2011, according to the ruling.
The judge said two former superintendents, Art Johnson and Ben Marlin, both testified that the district leaped almost directly to the firing, sidestepping a traditional ascending series of disciplinary actions.
Latson later apologized and insisted that he did believe the Holocaust was a historical fact.
Later, during a critical phase of the district’s actions in the incident, supervisors were unable to reach Latson. His lawyers blamed poor cellphone service in Jamaica, where Latson was on a previously scheduled vacation. But Thursday’s administrative ruling said Latson placed nine calls that day and received four, adding, “apparently his cellular phone was functioning during this time.”
The court case also ends up a mini Holocaust Trial ala Zundel:
The judge also said that, while the school district can’t prevent a student or parent “from holding the absurd ‘belief’ that the Holocaust did not happen,” it does mandate students are taught the difference between history and opinion.
This court case has earned a place in Holocaust Revisionist history. Given how unprecedented it was to abruptly fire this man and all else that followed (including his apology tour of Holocaust museums), we have another signpost in where things stood on the status of Open Debate on the Holocaust as of 2018/19.
