Christopher Mathias wrote at Huffington Post about a group called Dissident Homeschool that provides resources for parents who want to teach their children to be Nazis. Through research and inquiry, he found the names of the couple who administer the site. Many of the states enacting voucher plans include payments for homeschooling. If you live in one of those states, your tax dollars might be subsidizing the training of Nazis.
Please read the entire article. It’s too long to repost in its entirety. It is awful that parents would do this, and worse that it is subsidized by public funds in many state voucher plans.
Mathias writes:
On Nov. 5, 2021, a married couple calling themselves “Mr. and Mrs. Saxon” appeared on the neo-Nazi podcast “Achtung Amerikaner” to plug a new project: a social media channel dedicated to helping American parents home-school their children.
“We are so deeply invested into making sure that that child becomes a wonderful Nazi,” Mrs. Saxon told the podcast’s host. “And by home-schooling, we’re going to get that done.”
The Saxons said they launched the “Dissident Homeschool” channel on Telegram after years of searching for and developing “Nazi-approved material” for their own home-schooled children — material they were eager to share.
The Dissident Homeschool channel — which now has nearly 2,500 subscribers — is replete with this material, including ready-made lesson plans authored by the Saxons on various subjects, like Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee (a “grand role model for young, white men”) and Martin Luther King Jr. (“the antithesis of our civilization and our people”).
There are copywork assignments available for parents to print out, so that their children can learn cursive by writing out quotes from Adolf Hitler. There are recommended reading lists with bits of advice like “do not give them Jewish media content,” and there are tips for ensuring that home-schooling parents are in “full compliance with the law” so that “the state” doesn’t interfere.
The Saxons also frequently update their followers on their progress home-schooling their own children. In one since-deleted post to Telegram, they posted an audio message of their kids shouting “Sieg Heil” — the German phrase for “hail victory” that was used by the Nazis.
Over the past year, the Dissident Homeschool channel has become a community for like-minded fascists who see home schooling as integral to whites wresting control of America. The Saxons created this community while hiding behind a fake last name, but HuffPost has reviewed evidence indicating they are Logan and Katja Lawrence of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Logan, until earlier this week, worked for his family’s insurance company while Katja taught the kids at home.
The Anonymous Comrades Collective, a group of anti-fascist researchers, first uncovered evidence suggesting the Lawrences are behind Dissident Homeschool. HuffPost has verified the collective’s research.
The Lawrences did not respond to repeated requests for comment made via phone calls, text messages and emails. A HuffPost reporter also left a message in the Dissident Homeschool channel asking Mr. and Mrs. Saxon for comment about the Anonymous Comrades Collective’s research. That message was immediately deleted by the channel’s administrators, who then disabled the channel’s comment and chat functions.
A short time later, Katja Lawrence deleted her Facebook page.
Although the Lawrences will now surely face some public scorn and accountability, it’s likely their neo-Nazi curriculum is legal. A concerted, decades-long campaign by right-wing Christian groups to deregulate home schooling has afforded parents wide latitude in how they teach their kids — even if that means indoctrinating them with explicit fascism.
Meanwhile major right-wing figures are increasingly promoting home schooling as a way to save children from alleged “wokeness” — or liberal ideas about race and gender — in public and private schools. As extreme as the Dissident Homeschool channel is, the propaganda it shares targeting the American education system is just a more explicit and crass articulation of talking points made by Fox News hosts or by major figures in the Republican Party.
“Without homeschooling our children,” Mrs. Saxon once wrote, “our children are left defenseless to the schools and the Gay Afro Zionist scum that run them….”
Nazi Groomers

Mr. and Mrs. Saxon appeared to be thrilled to see their Dissident Homeschool channel gain a larger following. When the channel reached 1,000 subscribers, Mrs. Saxon posted a Nazi-era photo from Germany of uniformed schoolchildren throwing up fascist salutes. “It fills my heart with joy to know there is such a strong base of homeschoolers and homeschool-interested national socialists,” she wrote to mark the occasion. “Hail victory.”
Mrs. Saxon does the bulk of the posting in Dissident Homeschool, and developed extensive lesson plans that other neo-Nazi parents could use for their children. These lesson plans — about Christopher Columbus, the history of Thanksgiving and German Appreciation Day, as well as a “math assignment” about “crime statistics” that is meant to teach kids which “demographics to be cautious around” — are deeply racist.
One lesson plan about Martin Luther King Jr. tells parents to teach their kids that the revered civil rights leader was “a degenerate anti-white criminal whose life’s work was to make it impossible for white communities to protect their own way of life and keep their people safe from black crime.”
“Typically speaking,” Mrs. Saxon wrote in a post, “whites build societies whereas blacks destroy them.”
Included in the lesson plan is a copywork assignment for parents to print out, so that their kids can practice cursive while writing out a racist quote by George Lincoln Rockwell, the infamous American neo-Nazi.
It ain’t 1984, Brave New World, or Fahrenheit 451, but it seems Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury had similar, fairly correct, thoughts about our present times.
Good morning Diane and everyone,
Hello Greg,
The whole of myth, literature and fairy tales show the human qualities which will lead to our destruction or our ability to live in relationship to others and nature, and to the powerful energies that run our lives either with or without our consciousnesss. Answers are there. Wisdom is there. But, hey, let’s just get rid of the humanities because you can’t make money with knowledge of the great stories of our species. 🙂
Please further explain about those “powerful energies that run our lives”. Thanks!
Red Bull and adderall. Or cigarettes and adderall, in this case:
LOL!
In a mood tonight, I’m with Mamie on this one. The whole point of the humanities is to be able to explain and understand as best we can.
Well, Duane…I’ll be writing a small answer to your very big question about the powerful energies that run our lives. I often think of Auden’s, “We are lived by powers we pretend to understand…” What powerful energies are running a person who would beat another human being to death? There’s complete unconsciousness there. What powerful energies are running a person who would trample another person or group of people to get to the Black Friday deal on tv sets at Walmart? What powerful energies are running a person who gambles all his money away or drinks himself into a stupor every weekend? What powerful energies are running a person to take a public stand against destruction of the planet or stand up to a bully at school? There are many decisions I’ve made in my life with little knowledge of why I made them. It may have seemed on the surface that I knew what I was doing, but after reflection, there were patterns or energies there of which I was completely unconscious. So it might be a good thing to uncover what those unconscious energies and patterns are or we will repeat them over and over – continually wondering why we make the same mistakes and hurtful decisions. Further, that’s why myth, literature and fairy tales are so important. They show us what is going on inside ourselves. They show us the energies, beliefs and images that move us to action. In them we are reflecting ourselves, and there’s a great deal of wisdom there if we have the courageous daring to look. They are not just quaint stories of a long forgotten past. It amazes me how the oldest myths are still relevant in my life this very day. I hope that cleared it up a bit. 🙂
Not that much clarification for me, Mamie. Would you please give us a concise definition of ‘energies’ in the way you are using the term. From where do these ‘energies’ arise? Are they a detectable, repeatable phenomena? Or is it just, as you seem to be saying, an after the fact analysis term used to describe something that either is non-decipherable or non-existent, let’s say like the supposed ‘Holy Spirit’ or karma?
Well Duane…..only a fool would claim to know the answers to the questions you pose. Where do the energies come from? Nobody knows. Our bodies, our psyche, our consciousness, our unconscious? What is the life within us? Our Spirit. Nobody truly knows what these things are. We only have our experiences, don’t we? I have the experience of my ego, my unconscious, my spirit. But what these things are or where the come from, that is the great Mystery.
Well said, Mamie.
D, please tell us this is satire, that The Onion somehow hacked The Huffington Post to do this.
Yossarian,
I wish it was satire.
So this is the actual indoctrination that DeSantis keeps ascribing to public education. Right wing extremists have a tendency to project their intentions onto the left. Home schooling has emerged as a potentially dangerous political trend as this post shows. When children retreat to their own “foxholes” and are fed a steady diet of hate and lies, the result may produce adults that can become enemies of the state. The antidote to isolation and insulation that can become a breeding ground for anarchy is well-funded, public schools that bring diverse young people together to promote tolerance and mutual understanding.
Retired teacher, exactly right. We have public schools so young people cans learn and grow up to become r responsible self-governing citizens. This online community is isolating kids and grooming them to be haters.
Please don’t use the word grooming in any other context than pet or personal hygiene. The other side coopts words to give them no meaning. Our side uses words to explain actual facts and opportunity. We must develop different tactics that differentiate, educate, and motivate. “…[I]solating kids to be haters.” does that. Adding the other part muddies it for our purposes.
But, but, but….parents know what’s best for their children!
It’s interesting that the article uses a picture of school children giving the salute. A colleague teaching government in Germany I knew when I taught said the most predictably controversial and outraged his students get every year was when they came up to a photograph of American children citing the Pledge of Allegiance. Their immediate, universal response was, “that’s just like Nazis!” That’s why I now leave any area before the Pledge and national anthem are played. I realized as I generally look around at people who raise their voices most loudly that they have the least understanding of any part of the Constitution or why it matters to us.
There is a good book by Richard Ellis about the pledge called, “To the Flag.” Very eye opening for me. I would leave during the pledge too, but I have a colleague that got in trouble during the Colin Kaepernick situation because she kneeled during the pledge after talking to her students about civil disobedience.
Based purely on anecdotal, personal evidence and nothing else, I have the feeling that the Kaepernick “situation” was of greater importance (based on bigotry and willful ignorance) in Utah than just about anywhere else. It was taken a little differently in the English Premier League last year:
A trial run for Republicans enacting this as the K-12 curriculum nationwide come 2015?
No. Not really. The Republicans’ new national curriculum will be JUST LIKE THIS ONE, but it will use terms like “freedom,” “liberty,” and “democracy” more and overtly Nazi terms less.
As in: Be proud to be a ‘Merkin, whar you is free to think whatever Glorious Leader Rhonda Santis thinks.
Uh do run, Ron Ron, a do run, Ron.
Please rise for the national anthem:
haaa. unfortunately
Sentimentality is one of the standard, favorite poses taken by Fascists. Hitler did it. Mussolini did it. Gaddafi did it. And so on. It works on the mob, big time. “If I had to start all over with just my children and my wife.” Awwwwwwww.
Nothing like a bunch of jack-booted murderers goosestepping by to bring a tear to one’s eye.
Notice how Trump waxes all sentimental and aggrieved whenever he speaks of himself. One of his many kneejerk Fascist traits.
This made me laugh, Bob, as “merkin” has quite a funny meaning!!! Thanks for a good laugh today!
IKR? Thanks, Mamie.
Yes. One of my favorite Shakespearean-style insults, for a guy with a beard: “Thou merkin-faced varlet!”
Jinksy! I just looked that up. Who knew? What came first, the merkin or the egg cozy? And I thought I was hip to the scene.
SDP, please do your stuff.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the current extremist Repugnicans attained total power here and Germany ended up fighting a war against the American Fascists?: Hmm. I think that’s a good idea for a Netflix series.
We would have To go underground and join the resistance.
YES
I have no doubt whatsoever that you would, Dear Diane of the Warrior Spirit! I would be right there with you.
A note to my friends. The unesteemed Chris Rufo, founder of the myth that white children are being harmed by radical teachers pushing CRT, alerted his 500,000 followers on Twitter to a fact that I freely admit (it’s posted on my blog): my two sons went to private school. Two of my grandchildren went to religious school, and two went to public school. I, of course, am a graduate of public schools in Houston. I have said many times that all parents are free to make choices, but not to get public funds for their private choices. If you don’t like the public swimming pool, don’t expect the public to pay for your backyard pool.
Anyway, I’ve been bombarded with hostile tweets and have begun to get hostile comments here from newcomers sent by Rufo. I will ignore them and hope you do the same.
I attended public schools until I was in 10th grade, some of those were Department of Defense schools. I attended an all boys Catholic school in my last three years and graduated from a Jesuit university I attended for 4 1/2 years. I taught at independent schools.
Nothing is more vital to the preservation and flourishing of this nation than public education. And I would say that if I never, or had a family member never, attend a non-public school. I moved to where I am now because I wanted my sons to attend good public schools. That was at the beginning of NCLB and I’ve witnessed the dark underside of suburban Ohio public education. I believe the only hope this nation has to survive the coming decades and centuries will be to preserve and strengthen this nation’s public schools. This is a fight we cannot lose, otherwise it will never be achieved again.
Thank you, Greg. I agree.
Public education depends on the willingness of the public to pay taxes to educate other people’s children. Out of concern for them and for society. People who don’t have children pay for the coommunity’s children as do people whose children are no longer in school. Rufo is pushing the consumerism of education.
Rufo trying to point out hypocrisy (where there was none) is incredibly ironic. This is the guy who cooked up the CRT falsehood for propaganda purposes.
He got angry because I wrote about his Hillsdale speech, where he said we have to restore the values of 1776. And I responded here that women couldn’t vote and most blacks were enslaved in 1776.
Well spoken, Diane!!!
When I was at a concert in Germany this summer, during the intermission my “neighbors” asked me if it was really as bad in the U.S. as they were reading. I said it was far worse than they could imagine. During the course of the conversation I concluded, after January 2025 it may be up to Germany to save the world from American fascism. We laughed, we cried, we had another drink.
wow
Rufo is definitely un-esteemed, but any minor-to-major bigotry seems to steam up his false outrage.
Charles Koch did something similar to program his children to continue his goal to destroy the United States and global civilization as we know it through the ALEC Kochtopus.
I read a piece where Koch’s son was interviewed, and he said when he and his sibling came home from K-12 school everyday, their father made them watch films/documentaries that supported Koch’s version of what the world should be like. He said as a child, he couldn’t figure out why his father was making them watch those films.
Today, his son, who is an adult and much older than 18, is managing ALEC.
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When I first read this post on Diane Ravitch’s blog my jaw dropped and I thought, “No, no way!!!” But I know that Diane is a reliable blogger not given to conspiracies or exaggeration. She is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. So, I read the article she quotes here, did a bit more digging, and long story short, I am truly horrified by the group she writes about. Thank you, Diane, for bringing this abomination to our attention!
And the scary thing, these parents are just a lot more brazen in saying out loud what many of the “anti-CRT, anti-woke” right-wingers are thinking.
I have deleted many comments that claimed “No matter what bad thing was done, Black peoples are far worse.” The racism is disgusting and unapologetic.