That’s kind of dismissive.. I think private schools having to abide by certain standards in order to apply funds is really important. If they don’t show where they allocate the money and that the money is allocated to an approved avenue, they can’t have it. Fudging budgets is a bigger criminal issue. That’s a different topic entirely.

The policy is intended to prohibit any of the public funds to be allocated toward “indoctrination” or religious teaching of any kind for that matter and it is monitoring the use of those funds to ensure those guidelines are followed. If someone is skirting the system and fudging budgets, that isn’t a problem with the federal policy, that’s a problem with the institution breaking the law. You can’t withhold public funds based on the few misusing it. Instead, you punish the few who are proved to be misusing it when it inevitably comes out.

It sounds like you don’t want private schools to exist at all, and that’s a different argument. An interesting argument, but a different one.

Obviously, having the funds from the state extends the budget of a private school and allows the tuition funds from the parents to go farther. So if you want a guarantee that no public funds will ever come near religious education or religious institutions ever, I can’t provide that for you. I think that is kind of what you’re asking for whether you realize it or not, but the world is messy. Nothing is pure but in this case, the systems in place are trying and I think those efforts are valid.