WILL SAYS ITS NOT TRUE

Posted by on June 30th, 2008 filed in Celebrity

Back in May it was announced that Will Smith was investing 1 million dollars into the foundation of a private grade school in Calabasas, California.  Smith said it would stress things like low fat meals and non-traditional course work such as Yoga, Technology, Etiquette and Robotics, but many inferred it would be nothing but a Scientology indoctrination camp.  Like I did just now for example.  But today school administrators say again that this is not the case.  The AP says…

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.

People would hate scientologists a lot less if they weren’t so damn shady.  They follow the writings of a guy who told them to fight UFOs and battle invisible demons.  Fine.  Don't flatter yourself.  No one cares.  Do whatever you want, but don’t get all pissy when people point out that your religion is laugh-out-loud stupid.  This school should be what they are, and the teachers should dress like MIB and Jedis and Star Fleet and walk real stiff like robots and make "beep beep boop" sounds.  Mostly because that would be awesome.