"Nazi Homeschool Network Under Investigation by Ohio’s Department of Education", 30 January 2023

The Department of Education in Ohio is investigating the openly antisemitic and racist Nazi homeschooling group with thousands of members being operated by a couple from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, an official at the department told VICE News.

...VICE News and the Huffington Post reported that Logan and Katja Lawrence were the operators of the neo-Nazi Dissident Homeschool group which now boasts over 2,500 members on its Telegram channel, based on the research from anti-fascist researchers at the Anonymous Comrades Collective. The group openly advocates white supremacist ideologies with the aim to make sure the children they teach
“become wonderful Nazis.” 

The Lawrences share their classroom schedules, homework assignments, and lesson plans with other parents in the group, the vast majority of which are infused with Nazi ideology or open praise for Adolf Hitler.

The Ohio Department of Education is now actively reviewing compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements as a result of the media reports, a spokesperson for the department told VICE News.

“If requirements are met, the district superintendent releases the student from required compulsory school attendance,” The Ohio Department of Education states on its website. “This excuses the student and family from school attendance requirements in state law.”

A number of the assignments shared by Katja Lawrence on Telegram include lessons that allow children practice writing by copying down quotes from Hitler and other Nazis. Earlier this month, in a lesson plan designed to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Katja Lawrence shared an assignment that began: “As Adolf Hitler wrote…”

In a statement to VICE News, Gov. Mike DeWine condemned the group, and said “racism and antisemitism are vile and repugnant in all their forms.”