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'We are not Scientologists!'
Will Smith's soon-to-open private school is not a Scientology facility, as some reports have suggested, the academy's director said.
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- Published: 23:37 June 30, 2008
- Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, founded the New Village Academy.
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Will Smith's soon-to-open private school is not a Scientology facility, as some reports have suggested, the academy's director said.
Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, founded the New Village Academy in Calabasas, California, scheduled to open in September.
The school will use instructional methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard called study technology. And a few teachers belong to the church.
But the couple say they are not Scientologists, and the academy's director insists the facility has no religious affiliation.
"We are a secular school," New Village Academy director Jacqueline Olivier told the Los Angeles Times. She said staff do not promote their personal religious views.
Oliver said some of the school's staffers are Scientologists, Muslim, Christian or Jewish.
In addition to reading and math, the school offers classes on yoga, robotics and etiquette.
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