Will Smith’s New Village Academy school under fire for Scientology ties…
The New Village Academy (pre-Kindergarten to sixth grade) is a private school founded by actor Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith in the affluent Calabasas neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Click here to access the school’s website)
Although some reports insist that the facility is a Scientologist school, the academy’s director said today that is not. The first day of classes at the school begins September 3, 2008 and the school admittedly uses instructional methods developed by Scientology uber-lord founder L. Ron Hubbard called “study technology.”
Also, it is admitted that several of the teachers at the school belong to the Church of Scientology.
However, Will and Jada say that they are not Scientologists and that the facility is non-religiously affliliated.
New Village Academy’s Dr. Jacqueline Olivier said:
“We are a secular school, and just like all nonreligious independent schools, faculty and staff do not promote their own religions at school or pass on the beliefs of their particular faith to children”
Some of the school’s staff are Scientologists, Muslim, Christian or Jewish.
In addition to reading and math, the school offers classes on yoga, robotics and etiquette for its students. Tuition for 3rd to 6th grade students is $12,500 per child. Student meals are served at the school that are organic, low-carb, low-sugar and pasta is kept to a minimum….
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