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Old 05-19-2008, 09:07 PM
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Will Smith Invests Nearly $1 Million In A School For His Kids

Posted on May 19th, 2008 in The Daily Stab (Gossip So Good it Hurts)



Will Smith has paid $889,000 to lease an Indian Hills High School in Calabasas, after failing to find a suitable institute for his two young children, Jaden, 9, and Willow, 7. The actor and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have, until now, been home schooling the pair.

They first announced plans in December saying:
“We started home-schooling our children probably six years ago. We found about eight or nine other parents that home-school, so we put them together. … There’s just very powerful educational concepts that we believe in, and we feel like ‘I want to design the system that revolutionizes public education.’ “
A spokesperson for Smith says of the school - renamed the New Village Academy of Calabasas:
“Will is leasing the campus for three years, plus he’ll cover all costs such as utilities. The academy will be run privately, and will include prekindergarten through grade six.”
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Old 05-19-2008, 11:35 PM
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Re: Will Smith Invests Nearly $1 Million In A School For His Kids

Closet-fobia anyone? Why buy a whole school for his kids to go to? That reaks of God status... His kids will be spoiled out of their minds. And they will be the leaders of the future.

I dread the day to see sheltered officials understand the people. Because they never understand real life. Yet they get a grip on our reality.
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Re: Will Smith Invests Nearly $1 Million In A School For His Kids

[quote=Roogle;92620]Closet-fobia anyone? Why buy a whole school for his kids to go to? That reaks of God status... His kids will be spoiled out of their minds. And they will be the leaders of the future.

The school will be preK thru 6th grade.He has 2 kids.. Who else will he open it to?
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The school will be preK thru 6th grade.He has 2 kids.. Who else will he open it to?
More of his rich friends' kids?
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I can see Mr. Smith having a very personal interest in the education of his children. I think it was his grandmother who was a teacher, and his mother and grandmother were very strict with him about his education.

If I had the money to buy a school to run the way I see fit for my kid and others who felt the same way about education that I did.. hell, I'd do it, too.
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I tend to agree with PY on this one, and I truly feel Will Smith is a good guy, and parent, and has only the best intentions.
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He's such a down-to-earth guy, I honestly just can't see him letting his kids act like they own the school.. even if they actually happen to.
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Re: Will Smith Invests Nearly $1 Million In A School For His Kids

"We don't want our kids to memorize. We want them to learn." -- Jada Pinkett Smith

Sounds good to me. I don't see what Scientology has to do with it.
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Re: Will Smith Invests Nearly $1 Million In A School For His Kids

"The Daily Stab" ?

Never heard of this publication.

Sounds like Py and BC should run it
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He's such a down-to-earth guy, I honestly just can't see him letting his kids act like they own the school.. even if they actually happen to.
They might act that way when they become adults... child rearing is a crap-shoot any way you look at it. I benefited from being socialized with many different people - I think protection can go toward obsession.
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