So you want to raise yourself a scientologist? How do you go about instilling the values, rules and regulations into your school aged offspring? By sending them to the New Village Leadership Academy. This brand new school is a Church of Scientology education center that was launched just last year by superstar Will Smith and his wife Jada (even though there is much speculation, the couple haven’t come out publically as scientologists). This school will have a famous new student this week, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s young daughter Suri.
The New Village Academy is located in Los Angeles and educates the pre-k to 6th Grade set. This private school has just 60 students, but they hope to get up to 80 soon. The staff are all reportedly trained Scientologists and the curriculum features “study technology” (the methodology for learning developed by L. Ron Hubbard) as a focus. They also are quite strict about nutrition with a low-carb, low-sodium, low-sugar and organic diet.
The school boasts a tailored and individualized program, which is made possible with such a small enrollment of students. Along with the academic basics the students are also schooled in “Living Skills, Spanish, Dance/Performing Arts, Science, Physical Education, Karate, Yoga, Communications, Social Studies, Leadership Development, Music, Robotics, Technology, Etiquette, and Art.” They also have a longer school day, ending at 4pm, so that there is less home work and hopefully more family time, that is when mommy and daddy aren’t off filming a movie. Although there is no is reference to scientology on the school’s website, reports say they adhere to strict Scientology principles.
Suri will be attending this school this week, right after her third birthday and will be attending classes five days a week.
Many have a gut reaction when hearing the term scientology but do you think this is any different than sending your kid to an established religious educational center such as a Catholic school?
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