At stake is whether a parent gets to decide the method of schooling free from interference from a court about an inquiry into one’s religious beliefs, he told The Christian Post. “If you hold those religious beliefs too firmly or if [the court] believes those beliefs are too rigid then [it] will make that decision for you. That’s the problem here,” said Simmons.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a case of a Christian girl who was ordered out of homeschooling and into a public school by a state judge.

Amanda Kurowski, now 11, was ordered by a trial court in July 2009 to attend a public school. Her mother, Brenda A. Kurowski (Voydatch), is appealing the decision.

John A. Simmons, the attorney representing Voydatch, argued before the five-judge panel that the court did not follow the modification standard it should have in the parenting plan that existed between Voydatch and her ex-husband, Martin Kurowski.

Simmons said the father did not meet the requirements of a New Hampshire statute that requires there to be a defining of harm to the child in order for modification of the status quo, which in this case was the homeschooling of their daughter.

He said that in 2002 the couple followed a lower court order that required them to counsel with each other and decide on their daughter’s education. The couple divorced in 1999.

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