This post reviews Anthony Barone Kolenc, “When ‘I Do’ Becomes ‘You Won’t!’–Preserving the Right to Home School After Divorce” in Ave Maria Law Review 9, no. 2 (2010-2011): 263-302.
Kolenc is a lawyer in the U.S. Air Force, adjunct faculty member at Saint Leo University, homeschooling father of five, and author of the monthly column “Legally Speaking” in The Old Schoolhouse magazine. Here he constructs a legal argument aimed at helping divorced homeschooling parents involved in custody disputes.
Kolenc begins with the Kurowski case, which I discussed here and here. Here’s the summary I wrote a few months ago of the facts of the case: (more…)
; he’s written many articles on homeschooling; and he maintains a helpful site that catalogs homeschooling research
, here engages explicitly the aspect of his work that has caused the most controversy. Kunzman’s book is an in-depth profile of several Christian homeschooling families. He only briefly mentions government regulation in it, but that small part of the book has been the near exclusive focus of homeschoolers, many of whom now see him as just another critical academic who wants to take away their freedoms. In this article Kunzman offers a more complete presentation of his position on homeschool regulation. Here’s what he says: 
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