Post readers’ letters on various local, state and national topics.
About the possible firing of William Latson (“Termination looms for ex-Spanish River High principal in Holocaust uproar,” Wednesday):
The issue regarding the Holocaust was dealt with more than a year ago with district upper management and parent participation. The parent said that she doesn’t believe the principal is racist. Why did this issue resurface after that passage of time?
If Holocaust education is made mandatory rather than voluntary, other cultures and groups that have been persecuted or oppressed should also be taught.
Suggestions:
1. Make classes specific to ethnic and religious groups voluntary rather than mandatory. Let our students have a choice.
2. Keep politics out of this process. Superintendent Fennoy has been pressured by multiple politicians to fire this principal.
3. Publish the name of the accusatory parent. Let her stand up and face public scrutiny.
4. Dr. Latson could have chosen his words more wisely. However, I don’t believe there was malicious intent. He should be allowed to continue as an educator.
Ervin Garland, Boca Raton
For Trump, months ahead will be grueling
For the next year, life will be very difficult for President Trump. He faces impeachment in the House and then a long trial in the Senate followed by his re-election campaign.
No other president was under such pressures. Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon were already in their second terms when they were impeached. Both of them were much younger than this president.
Being and running for president is a young person’s game, like it or not.
Michael I. Cohen, West Palm Beach
President uses language unfit for nation’s leader
Just when I thought I had heard it all, someone calls Republicans who are not supportive of the president “human scum.”
I have lived for more than nine decades and have never heard a person, friend or enemy referred by this term. The fact that these derogatory words were used by the president of the United States is a national disgrace.
Here is a man who brags about his education, refers to himself as a “stable genius” and yet seems to have a limited vocabulary.
Let me ask all loyal Trump supporters who have impressionable young children, would they allow them to use this language? Of course not. Why should we tolerate such immature behavior from the leader of the world?
Burt Edelchick, Hobe Sound
Democrats must focus on Americans’ real problem
The glow of victory emanating from the Democratic Party across our nation may well be short-lived if the agenda in the House of Representatives is focused more on punishing Trumpism than addressing the needs of all Americans.
The party would do well to listen to its centrist members in order to fix the remaining issues of the Affordable Care Act, fund infrastructure investment and negotiate immigration reform.
It is necessary for the health of our nation to work together toward our common ground and good. Our nation has experienced three years of rancor and division within Washington, and many of us are sick and tired of seeing it.
The far left and the far right will always be loud, but for now why not work to mend our fractured ways of treating one another, use our voices to pursue united success and take advantage of some of the good things we are enjoying to make us even greater?
Robert Rega, Greenacres
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