Comments on: All My Sons Ticket Sales Not So Great

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:17:10 +0000

I don’t think it’s any secret that the Smith’s home school their children. Both Jada and Will have admitted to that.

Reports suggest that they home school their children using study technology, which was developed by Hubbard and focuses on students gaining hands-on experience, mastering subject matter before moving to the next level, and being taught not to read past words they don’t understand.

Study technology has been explained this way by the head of the school that Jada and Will are opening…………. (Jacqueline Olivier, the head of the school is a highly respected educator.)

“People tend to think study technology is a subject, but it is really just the way the subject is taught,” Olivier said. “They then come to the conclusion that we are teaching Scientology when actually a methodology doesn’t have anything to do with content.”

By: concerned mom

concerned mom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:23:59 +0000

Never thought of that reason for the school. I know CA is having a problem with home-schooling and has been cracking down on it. I think it should be like it is here in FL where the kids still have to pass the state tests for each grade level and you have to present your lesson plans, etc.

By: PuckHappy

PuckHappy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:25:51 +0000

Lauren, Have you ever heard the term “What goes around, comes around”?
It comes from “An eye for an eye”, which is in the Bible. ie., Karma.
So to compare that you are not a Buddhist, but yet you believe in Karma, is NOT the same as someone teaching their children about a belief that YOU say they do not believe in.

Jada and Will both have been VERY vocal about their children being home schooled in CoS.
Here in California, some are trying to get a law passed that you cannot be home schooled unless the kids are taught be a certified teacher. That is one reason that the Smiths are starting their own school. Which will be based in CoS teaching methods. Something that the Smiths believe in.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:50:47 +0000

Puck, are you in the Smith household to know that Jada teaches her kids scientology? If she says she is not a scientologist, she is not. It is her life after all and we should respect what she says. May be there are good aspects of scientology she likes to taken on without joining it. I am not buddhist, yet I believe in Karma.

Con mom, pardon me but I remember you and others complaining about Suri being dressed to the nines, her hair always groomed and not allowed to be a child with all the designer clothes. It seems to me that may be people just like looking for a fault.

Besides, you have said it on every thread that you don’t like Suri’s hair and she looks neglected. We get it. It is now a broken record. Move on to something else. Have you checked out Katie’s toes, they are too long….. lol.

By: concerned mom

concerned mom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:16:41 +0000

And Suri does have beautiful hair like her mom.. I think she is going to be and already is a beauty..Just can’t stand hair in the face-any face..

By: concerned mom

concerned mom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:07:30 +0000

I have a very strong-willed daughter who is now almost 30–can’t tell her anything now. lol but when she was little there were things that I would tolerate and things I wouldn’t. Looking neat when out and about AND always being on good behavior was expected. At home?? Not so much-actually I was a pretty lenient mom. But it was always a surprise when people would say my girls were so ‘well-behaved’ and ‘polite’ because they sure weren’t always at home..LOLOL

By: PuckHappy

PuckHappy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:28:51 +0000

Jada also says she is not a cos member. But yet SHE home schools her children in the CoS beliefs. It must be the CoS way that you can be a Catholic AND be a CoS at the same time. And you can be a CoS and NOT be a CoS at the same time.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:31:46 +0000

I don’t for a moment believe Katie runs that household. You gotta be kidding me. And, Jada is your source? HAHAHAHAHA.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:52:38 +0000

So Tyler, do you think Tom’s mom travels with Tom and his family wherever they go to keep things in order and run his affairs? I have not heard anything about her moving with them to their new home. Infact prior to moving, Tom and Katie were living at the Celebrity scientology centre. I doubt his mum runs his home, from the interviews, it appears that Katie does. Even Jada said so.

Con mom, that you said about Suri, Katie’s mom said that about her. That she was a strong willed child that she (her mom feared that people wuld think she was an orphan). I am all for the barrette but I don’t fancy the chances that it will remain in the hair for more than 5 minutes. She did seem like she like the band in her hair the other day.

I can’t wait to see what they do with it. She has beautiful hair.

By: jenna

jenna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:47:38 +0000

Tyler….just a quick clarification. I wrote that she appears to be strained, not that I am confirming that she actually is strained. Big difference. She appears to look unwell, and some of us are just wondering as to why.