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High school principal fired after denying Holocaust was ‘factual’ event

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  1. Adfundum

    Adfundum Moderator Staff Member Donor

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    Adfundum, Nov 1, 2019
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  2. Grau

    Grau Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's too bad for everyone that many of the stock photos are either fakes, deliberately mislabeled or complete frauds.


    "Zionists Fake Holocaust Cremation Deaths Using 35 Year-Old Train Wreck Images"
    https://nodisinfo.com/zionists-holocaust-cremation-deaths-ohio-train-wreck-images/

    EXCERPT "So, it is that there is not only no evidence for it, but in fact, there is evidence fully against it, proving it to be a lie. Here is the proof of the fake, the star imagery of the dog and pony show, the supposed open-pit cremation of naked, dead Jews. There were no Jews there. This is a fake. The corpses were put in artificially. The image has nothing to do with the war or post-war period. It’s not even from Germany but rather from the United States"CONTINUED


    "Holocaust Or Holohoax 06: The Faked Atrocity Photos"
    https://holohoax.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/holocaust-or-holohoax-06-the-faked-photos-2/
     
    Grau, Nov 2, 2019
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  3. Grau

    Grau Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Much of what you have said is speculation and I suspect that if Principal Latson had previous job performance issues that they would have been reported in the extensive national / international coverage of this incident.

    You were kind enough to cite an article in your Post # 51 which explains that the official reason for his firing was a failure to return messages:

    EXCERPT "The official justification for Latson’s termination was not the explosive comments that drew international attention but his failure to return messages from district officials in the days after his comments became public."CONTINUED (1)

    I suspect, however, that if there were additional problems with Latson's performance, they would have been included in the official reason(s) for his firing but they were not.


    (1) "Spanish River High principal whose Holocaust remarks ignited furor is fired"
    https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/...hose-holocaust-remarks-ignited-furor-is-fired
     
    Grau, Nov 2, 2019
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  4. Adfundum

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    I honestly don't think the district would go into much detail publicly. They are more concerned about keep things quiet because having to explain things makes the district sound inept. Administrators in public education face a high turnover rate. Their job depends mostly on test scores and a continued improvement of those scores from year to year. If they fail to meet or exceed the goals, they are not re-hired and move on to another district.

    From the article I can see that Larson ran into an aggressive parent with an agenda. She was pushing hard for changes to be made in how the Holocaust was being taught. This was not a single incident according to the article. She had already pushed to make teachers report what and when they taught about the Holocaust. Everything I see from the article suggests that the district was more interested in hushing the parent. Yet, at the same time it would not have sacrificed a principal who was exceeding the performance goals. Instead, they would have worked hard to keep that person. The "failure to return messages from district officials" says much about the relationship between the district and the principal.
     
    Adfundum, Nov 2, 2019
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  5. Grau

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    After scanning other articles about this same event, it looks like Principal Latson had more persecutors than simply a single aggressive parent with an agenda as the ADL, too, called for Latson's resignation or firing while asserting that his apology didn't sound genuine.
    Apparently, the ADL can read minds as well as intimidate faint hearted & Politically Correct school board members.

    "Florida principal reassigned after Holocaust remarks blames parent"
    https://www.clickorlando.com/educat...ssigned-after-holocaust-remarks-blames-parent
    EXCERPT "The Anti-Defamation League in Florida has called for his resignation or termination. The anti-hate group says Latson's farewell comments suggest an earlier apology wasn't genuine."CONTINUED

    I sincerely believe that if Latson's remarks concerned any other topic, he would still have his job
     
    Grau, Nov 2, 2019
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    No Grau, I'm going to completely agree with Adfundum and DISagree with you on this one. I've seen too many admins move on from place to place precisely because of the scenario he discusses. Worse, there are almost ALWAYS districts that will take in an admin because of friendships cultivated over many years, or nepotism in one case at my own district. We quite literally got the worst principal on the planet a few years ago who had just been fired from her previous school that we picked up precisely because she was married to a hi-level DO Imperial Poobah, and another one was hired because she was friends with the superintendent. I've worked at my district for over two decades now and the politics at the DO level is pretty much what Adfundum describes.

    Also, ANY other topic? I don't believe that. I've been in the World Events forum long enough to know the "Joos did it" trope; don't buy it. I mean, at one nearby district we had a principal given notice because a photo of her and some teachers was distributed where she was holding a noose. IIRC, it was meant as lighthearted gallows humor (sorry) meaning "Hang in there!" but when it got found out the entire Black community went into an uproar because it evoked racism and lynchings to them and I know the admin was put on leave and I think ultimately sacked. Had an admin said "Nah, slavery didn't exist," or quoted Soulja Boy - "Shout out to the slave-masters! Without them we wouldn't have this bling!" - that admin would be out the door before the ink had dried on his pink slip. Or, I dunno, if this hypothetical admin spoke out saying that he respected ICE because they do a fine job and we really ought to send every illegal alien we find back. Yup - he'd be tarred and feathered - and here in California, he might be executed with Newsome's full approval.
     
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    Believe it or not, I've often wondered how people who are completely indoctrinated to the point where they can literally murder people without batting an eye, people like WWII Germans and Japanese, can simply, or supposedly, switch it off when the war ended.

    The power of indoctrination is strong.
     
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    Absolutely untrue. Religions do not deal with facts but with things that, by definition, transcend facts and factual proof. It we could prove the existence of God(s) he would not BE God. He must be accepted on Faith and that is why religions are CALLED Faiths.

    The Holocaust is a fact, it happened and has been proven as much as gravity or a spherical Earth. (Are all of our older friends and relatives who actually SAW the camps part of such an awful hoax?)
     
    Aleksander Ulyanov, Nov 2, 2019
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    The death figures are not exaggerated. The German people have always taken pride in keeping meticulous records and they did so here.
     
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    The Allies didn't give a rat's butt about people starving to death. Have you seen what the people in India looked liked who were starved by Churchill? https://www.bing.com/images/search?...es+of+idians+starving+to+death+wwii&FORM=IGRE The war was about more than a few Jews getting killed.

    Look at the picture of these happy fatties https://cdn.jewishboston.com/uploads/2017/06/EtchedInGlass_09ross01_met.jpg
     
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    They got a country out of it plus $Billions of US taxpayer money every year for the past 71 years while our own citizens have to crap in the streets. And they have made it a crime around the world to call their lie a lie.
     
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    You do know that there were Jews in Germany after the last shot was fired? If the Nazis had wanted to kill all of them they were some lazy ineffective killers.
     
    The Wyrd of Gawd, Nov 2, 2019
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    She will be very lucky if the guy doesn't go postal on her.
     
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    For what?

    I can appreciate taking an active interest in education, but it sounds like this mom was on a single-minded crusade to change how the Holocaust was taught in that school. She zeroed in on the principal, and most likely some of the school board. She obviously wanted a course to match her standards, but she was approaching everything at the wrong level. The changes she seems to have wanted are changes that would have to start at the state level. Targeting the principal shows a lack of understanding of how the system works.
     
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    One thing I didn't bring up before was the comment in the article about students not being required to read "Night." There is a certain irony in that the students only had to read select passages from the novel. I've complained about this before--that more and more the schools and even the parents complained when novels were assigned. One incident that sticks out is a time when I had students read a couple of pages from a chapter in "Moby Dick" and the AP walked in and sat for a few minutes. Later, he told me to limit the amount of reading students had to do to no more than ten minutes because that's about how long the passages are on the tests. "Night" was always one book the kids would actually read and get into. Sadly, over time parents complained it was too long, it was too violent, it was too emotional, blah, blah, blah. It got quite disappointing.
     
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    Yes, I suspect you're right.
     
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    So, the majority of the world knows nothing about it.

    I love shake up facts like this. Reminds westerners that theirs is the minority worldview.
     
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    The treatment and murder of the jews shows there is such a thin veneer separating us from being humane and being evil monsters.

    That is why keeping this alive is the wise thing to do. Otherwise we might lose that thin veneer.


    No one should have a problem with being reminded given the wisdom involved.
     
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    her hard work and perseverance gained more attention, and change, than going to the State ever would,
     
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    Is there any doubt that the Principle of the school is a leftist? Not much.
     
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    Little doubt of that.

    The left in their carelessness often go too far in trying to be progressive.
     
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    If it did change anything, it might be good. I'm not sure what all she wanted, but it sounded like she wanted a full course on the subject. Maybe she just wanted to have the notion of reading an entire novel put back into the classroom. Maybe her real fight was with other parents who had the courses and requirements changed to what they currently are. But other than getting the principal fired, I can't see that she changed anything. State mandated curriculum doesn't leave much for the local district to change.
     
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    Conservatives in education - we're quite uncommon. There's a helluva lotta GroupThink in certain fields - you'll find the same thing in entertainment. Yeah, very little doubt of that, the principal is likely a LW-er. Kind of makes it ironic, huh?
     
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