Mountain View teacher who compared Trump to Hitler back to work

The Mountain View high school teacher who compared president-elect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and was later suspended returned to work Monday. Frank Navarro, a Holocaust scholar who has taught at Mountain View High School for 40 years, previously told The Chronicle the school’s principal and district superintendent put him on paid leave Nov. 10 after a parent complained about parallels he drew between Trump and Hitler in his world studies class. Navarro previously denied saying directly that Trump and Hitler were one and the same, but said he described to students similarities in how both promised to eject foreigners and make their countries “great again.” The school’s newspaper, the Oracle, initially published an article late last week about the investigation, leading to outrage and fears of censorship from both parents and students. A change.org petition supporting the then-suspended history teacher had gathered more than 35,000 signatures by Monday night, calling the administration’s decision “dangerous and disgusting.”