WRONG. Besides for fraud, chilul hashem etc.. if guilty, arent the children the victims here ?
Did you read the article?
1. Erate is setup to provide funding for communications and computer infrastructure, including networks,phone systems and internet.
2. The most expensive items are wiring and setting up networks. This typically happens at the school board level, with significant cost savings for the individual schools.
3. Private schools are eligible, but since each one is run independently, the costs are high, because there is no economy of scale.
4. Most yeshiva students don't use the internet in class, but their schools certainly do use communication infrastructure. The forward article showed no evidence that erate funds were not being used for communications infrastructure in Lakewood's schools.
5. The inference was, however, "Gosh, there are so darn many of them that they are eating up all our money, and those awful troglodytes won't even use Google!"