Suri Starts Her Scientology Training

Posted by SunnyChanel at 8:30 AM on April 15, 2009

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 publicly 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 individualised 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 mummy 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 centre such as a Catholic school?

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  • Anonymous says:

    I looked and it’s not really a low-carb diet like an adult may have… http://www.nvlacademy.org/_bin/curriculum/nutrition.cfm says:

    Nutrition

    As part of the New Village philosophy all students must be well-rested and well-fed in order to perform at their optimum. Students are fed breakfast, lunch and two snacks.

    In addition to being well-fed, it is essential that students consume healthy meals, which we believe optimizes their overall performance. Meals are prepared with the following nutritional guidelines.

    * Few to no fried foods
    * High quality / organic fruits and vegetables
    * High quality snacks e.g. peanut butter and apples
    * Low-carb, low-sugar and low-sodium
    * High protein intake, using fresh meats. No canned meats served, except tuna
    * Pasta kept to a minimum
    * Brown rice served
    * No MSG

    Also, the study technology point they say this here: http://www.nvlacademy.org/news/newsItem.cfm?cms_news_id=24

    “Parents are also welcome to take the Learning How to Learn course at the school and we encourage this as it demystifies what Study Technology is. Though developed by L. Ron Hubbard, it is a secular course and not affiliated with the religion of Scientology, just as the Montessori method, though developed by a devout Catholic, is not a way to teach religious concepts. If you have any questions, please ask any of the teachers or Dr. Jacquie.”

 

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