Scientology isn't in curriculum, chief of Will Smith school says
12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Scientology and the Smiths
Will Smith's soon-to-open private school is not a Scientology facility, as some reports have suggested, the academy's director says.
The New Village Academy in Calabasas, Calif., will use instructional methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard called study technology, and a few teachers belong to the church. But Mr. Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who are founding the school, say they are not Scientologists, and the academy's director insists the facility has no religious affiliation.
"We are a secular school," academy director Jacqueline Olivier says.
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