[Republic If You Can Keep It]

If you allow public money to fund private schools, the government will eventually demand a say in the curriculum

Really?

Are the Feds dictating the curriculum at Notre Dame because of the GI Bill?

Hmmmmmmmm?

[Blue Collar Christian]

My G.I. bill money is my benefit for serving this country, not public funds. I can even use it for trade school to learn gunsmithing, but you can bet there are people who would like to put an end to that. Also, more impressionable students are those in elementary and high schools where current political correctness can be more solidly installed along with historical revision.

[xkaydet65]

Have you seen that Saint John's Univ in NYC had to drop its Div 3 Football program to keep its athletic department in line with Title IX. The alternative is to lose all fed funds including Pell Grants, student loand, and G.I. Bill.

[Salvation]

**Are the Feds dictating the curriculum at Notre Dame because of the GI Bill?**

Good analogy.

[SWake]

Are the Feds dictating the curriculum at Notre Dame because of the GI Bill?

About two years ago, a lawsuit was brought by two small seminaries against the state of Texas. These two schools were denied the right to confer undergraduate degrees because they refused to be accredited. They refuse accrediation because they claim it will result in a change of thier chosen curriculum, therefore destroying their academic focus.

So, maybe the Feds won't do it, but some government entity probably will.

[ninenot]

Not quite.

But they are dictating the sports program's priorities.

There's another thread somewhere regarding the "women's participation" requirement forced on schools which accept ANY KIND of Federal dollars.

By the way, Notre Dame is not all that Catholic, either. Any school which sponsors "The Vagina Monologues" is simply NOT a Catholic school.

[thedilg]

Are the Feds dictating the curriculum at Notre Dame because of the GI Bill?

Exactly! you can expand that to 10's of thousands of schools after WW II. This even included semenaries.

Of course the money went to the students not the schools.
It was the students that supported or withdrew from a curriculum, not the government. Precisely the same is true of vouchers.

Godspeed, The Dilg