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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 08:51 AM
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Will Smith's school insists it's not Scientologist
LOS ANGELES — 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, have founded the New Village Academy, 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, 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," New Village Academy director Jacqueline Olivier told the Los Angeles Times...

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 09:35 AM
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1. "No, really, I am the most qualified to guard the henhouse!" said the Fox.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 09:57 AM
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2. Do Scientologist schools have Scientologist nuns?
And if so, instead of wearing a habit, do Scientologist nuns wear the John Travolta alien outfit from Battlefield Earth?
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 10:18 AM
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3. They have the Sea Org.
An organization that requires members to wear naval uniforms and sign billion year contracts.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 10:28 AM
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4. Dudz. I'm totally not lyin! Iz secular. I'm a scientologist! I canz help!
Fur realz!!!

Why no one bleev me?
Why no one takes me seriouzzly?
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 10:33 AM
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5. If it speaks like Scientogists, walks like Scientologists, and charges like Scientologists...
:rofl:
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-30-08 10:48 AM
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6. "Of course it's not
keep telling everyone this.... It is not scientology. It's just identical in every way except we allow the kids to worship Me, Will Smith, in flaT dAdDy form at the end of lunch each day."
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