The Ohio Department of Education is investigating a homeschool group of over 2500 members teaching children how to utilizing Nazi ideology.
“According to reports, the Ohio Department of Education is looking into a pro-Nazi homeschooling network maintained by a couple in the state.
After news of the ‘Dissident Homeschool’ network surfaced last week, a representative of the state agency said the department is ‘actively reviewing compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements’.
According to Vice News, the network, which disseminates pro-Nazi material via a Telegram channel, has more than 2,400 users. Logan and Katja Lawrence of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, have been identified as the Mr. and Mrs. Saxons who administer the channel.
The identities of the Lawrences and the homeschooling network were first revealed by the Anonymous Comrades Collective, an anti-fascist research organization. The Lawrences’ names were also confirmed by two family members.
According to Katja Lawrence of the neo-Nazi podcast ‘Achtung Amerikaner’, the pair started the network because they were “having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material” for their kids.
Stephanie Siddens, Ohio’s Interim Superintendent of Public Instruction, tweeted that she was ‘outraged and saddened’ after learning of the group.
‘There is absolutely no place for hate-filled, divisive and hurtful instruction in Ohio’s schools, including our state’s home-schooling community’, she added.
The superintendent of the Upper Sandusky Exempted Village Schools, Eric Landversicht, said in a letter to the locals that homeschooling parents are ‘responsible for choosing the curriculum and course of study’ and that the ‘the parents’ chosen curriculum is not sponsored or endorsed by the District’”. -Roy Francis, One America News
Don’t get it twisted. The Department of Education’s actual target is Christian-based homeschool materials and groups.
Regardless of whatever lack of curricula may be prevalent amongst these particular homeschoolers, there’s undoubtedly a correlation between receiving ongoing Holocaust education in well-funded suburban schools, with visits to Holocaust museums and in-school appearances by supposed “survivors”, and a predisposition to brand anyone who promotes anything Christian or European in its origin as fascistic, hate-filled neo-Nazis.
As a supporter of the parental right to dictate the content of a child’s education, I must oppose the public propaganda system in its attempt to eliminate any and all challenges to its officially approved stance.
Not only is the hyperbolic condemnation of Nazi Germany rather ill-founded in light of the enduring agitprop of the Allied forces, but it appears as though World War II history has less to do with acknowledging the Nazi menace of the past than it does with contriving a fabricated Nazi menace for the present.
The Department of Education’s real issue with homeschoolers is not whether the material they teach is historically accurate. It’s about whether the pupils turn out to be as unthinking and complacent towards autocratic newspeak as their conventionally schooled counterparts.