Vice News reports:
Earlier this month, while the rest of the country was celebrating the achievements of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., parents and children in the “Dissident Homeschool” network opened a lesson plan and were greeted with the words: “As Adolf Hitler wrote…” The contents of the MLK lesson plan would be shocking for almost anyone, but for members of the 2,400-member “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel, this was a regular Monday at school.
“It is up to us to ensure our children know him for the deceitful, dishonest, riot-inciting negro he actually was,” the administrator of the network’s Telegram channel wrote, alongside a downloadable lesson plan for elementary school children. Admins and members use racist, homophobic, and antisemitic slurs without shame, and quote Hitler and other Nazi leaders daily in a channel open to the public.
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NEW: Inside a Nazi homeschooling group run by the Lawrences, a couple from Upper Sandusky, OH, and parents of four young children.
The group has almost 2,500 member and the founders say its aim is “making sure that children become wonderful Nazis”
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) January 29, 2023
Katja Lawrence said last year that she founded the group because she was “having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material for [her] homeschool children”
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) January 29, 2023
Katja shares Nazi-related educational resources, as well as sample schedules and lesson plans.
Parents in the group chat, which was shut down last week, also pitch in with resources, such as: “10 Reasons Why Hitler Was One of The Good Guys”
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— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) January 29, 2023
Katja shared a picture of a Führer Cake she baked the kids to celebrate Hitler’s birthday, adding that she had also baked a lot of swastika items.
One chilling audio clip she shared featured her kids shouting “Sieg Heil”
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) January 29, 2023
Another worrying aspect of the group is how it is encouraging members to meet up with like-minded people in real life, acting as a recruiting platforms for white supremacist groups like The Right Stuff, Patriot Front and the National Justice League
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) January 29, 2023
Katja urges members to join so-called “pool parties” to socialize with like-minded people.
“There is a huge network of people like us. We joined a pool party & our children now play with other white children where they can speak & play freely.”
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) January 29, 2023
This is what GOPs mean when they talk about “school choice”
— Cheryl Bolen Smelson (@cherylbolen) January 29, 2023