"I am broadly stating that in essence they are funding the students as a class. The school doesn't matter, religious or not ? Does it ? What I meant in my statement and I could be wrong....is that....I thought the children / parents received the check and if so the funding does not directly go to the school."
Why does it have to go directly to the school if the funding still ends up at the school because it is religious?  And no, question marks indicate it is a question not sarcasm.
"Can't one say then they are funding the student ?"
Yes, one could say they are funding the student if one wanted to be disingenuous.  That's like saying a public single payer system isn't a national health system because it is funding the patients.  It hides/disregards the larger aspects.