A Florida principal who refused to say the Holocaust was a factual, historical event has been fired a second time, reports The South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Former Spanish River Community High School Principal William Latson, who was initially fired for telling a mother from the high school that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened” and that he couldn’t say the Holocaust was real because he worked at a public school and couldn’t take a position on the matter, sued and said he had been wrongfully terminated.
A judge concluded that he should have been reprimanded, not fired, and the board voted to rehire him on Oct. 7 because they thought they would face a protracted and costly legal battle.
Latson was given an administrative job and was to receive $152,000 in back pay. The national backlash was swift, with the board receiving outraged comments from Holocaust survivors, their families, and others.
Additionally, the board learned that the court ruling regarding Latson’s firing had merely been a recommendation and on Monday unanimously voted to rescind the 4-3 vote to rehire him.
“I heard your calls,” board member Marcia Andrews said to those who voiced concern to the school board. “I’m going to rescind my vote. I’m going to fix this today.”
Latson in a recording said he was not a Holocaust denier and was “sorry that my comments caused people to think that.”
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