"The New Village Academy plans to
use some teaching methods developed within the Church of Scientology and has
hired a team of Scientologists to put them into action. Pinkett-Smith, who
currently home-schools the couple's two children, has long been talking about
opening up a school where Jaden, 9, and Willow, 7, can continue to receive an
education in line with their beliefs, friends told FOXNews.com. So she and her
actor husband are bankrolling the pre-kindergarten through sixth grade school
in Calabasas, Calif., and they have selected a group of Scientologists,
including the Director of Learning, Director of Qualifications and Artistic
Director, to create that atmosphere. But you won't find references to the
Church of Scientology on NVA's Web site. Ron Reynolds, executive director of
the California Association of Private School Organizations, a consortium of the
state's private and religious schools, said it's not the actual teaching of
Scientology methods that raises a red flag for him. His concern is the school's
non-disclosure about its apparent religious affiliation. "School should be
forthright about its purposes. And if it's a religious school, I don't see why
it wouldn't wish to announce its religious affiliation loud and clear,"
Reynolds said."