Articles tagged with: School
Will Smith has reached the pinnacle of his career - acting exclusively in films where he gets to save the world - and now he wants more.
Which is why he's decided to open a brand new private school to give the youth of today the best shot at a high quality education. Will Smith's New Village Academy is set to open in September. And it definitely isn't a Scientologist school, OK?
True, some of the teachers at Will Smith's new school might just happen to be Scientologists, but that hasn't got anything to do with anything. And, yes, the school's curriculum will be based on Scientologist instructional models developed by L Ron Hubbard himself, but that doesn't make it a Scientologist school either. However, the giant, golden rotating statue of Xenu in the playground could well make it look like a Scientologist school. Just joking!
Oprah Winfrey loves to force stuff on people - whether it's a fleet of cars, charity debit cards or just nuggets of homespun self-help advice - but force young girls acts to perform sexual acts in Oprah's name and it's a different matter entirely.
That's the case with the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa anyway, where it turns out that instead of giving talented-yet impoverished South African girls the chance to develop the full potential that their conditions would have stopped them from reaching, she was actually inadvertently letting them get sexually abused by one of the staff. And now Oprah Winfrey has spoken to journalists about her "devastation" at discovering the scandal, promising that she'd "clean house" while introducing her new all-star teaching staff who'd make sure this would never happen again - Gary Glitter, Jonathan King, R Kelly and the creepy guy from down the road who your mum says touches women on the bus.
