Word: safranek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school system to change those rules. And other home-school advocates have taken this issue to Michigan's legislature, where it has split the Republican Party. For Tolbert, it's an issue of basic fairness: "The state should provide these [athletic] benefits on a nondiscriminatory basis," says Stephen Safranek, the lawyer behind the Tolberts and six other families. "We all pay the same taxes...
...Safranek says this argument ignores school rules, which allow enrolled students never to set foot on campus. (They can take classes at community colleges if they wish.) He suspects the rules are really motivated by bias against home schooling, and he takes offense at the notion that his clients would lie to make their kids eligible...
...Safranek is hoping for a friendlier hearing in court. He's also willing to compromise. "We would follow some reasonable regulations," he says, such as a rule that home schoolers pass exams to be eligible. "But we shouldn't be shut out entirely...