Bye Bye Mommy, I’m Off To Scientology School

Well, just when I thought I have had my fill on how despicable Tom Cruise can be, he up and announces his youngest child, Suri (who turns 3 on April 18) will be attending a Scientology school.

Bye bye Suri!

Not just ANY Scientology school mind you, but the school of Will “I am a Christian. I am a student of all religions. And I respect all people and all paths” Smith and wife Jada “The Schoolmaster’s” school of course.

Yes, it’s true, Suri will be attending the New Village Academy School in Calabasas California and learning her ABC’s Scientology style.

More like ARC’s, a Scientology acronym which stands for Affinity, Reality, and Communication, which is the meaning of the lower triangle in the cult’s logo.

By now, most of you know the school, the one that Will and Jada dumped a cool $1 mill of their own money into last year? The private school will offer organic meals, laptops for every student and an environment of learning based on “equity” and “respect” to create “citizens of the world.”

Wow sounds kind of fantastic right?

The school accommodates students pre-k through sixth grade.

Laptops? Hmmm I wonder if the laptops will all be installed with a “net nanny” so if students are allowed to connect to the internet, which is doubtful, their wandering eyes won’t be able to access any criticism against Scientology.

Reported by the Daily Mail UK

Tom and Katie Cruise’s doll-like daughter Suri is to be trained in Scientology after her third birthday this week.

The Cruises are sending their daughter five days a week to the Church of Scientology’s £6,000-a-year New Village Academy in Los Angeles, launched last year by Tom’s friend, fellow actor Will Smith.

It is staffed by trained Scientologists and lists ‘study technology’ as a key curricular focus.

‘The children have a lot of responsibilities from a very young age,’ says a source.

‘The school is particularly strict about nutrition, demanding a low-carb, low-sodium and low-sugar organic diet.

‘Katie is understandably a little anxious about being separated from Suri.’

I’ll bet Katie is a little anxious! How will Suri (or Katie) get along without mom carrying her all over the place? Who will Katie and Tom use in all those photo-ops to distract from them being crazy cult followers? Questions, questions and so few answers.

Sarcasm aside, I was really rallying for Katie and Suri to get out if this dang cult, but now I am losing hope. Suri’s budding critical thinking skills will be stunted thanks to the use of L. Ron Hubbard “tech” at the New Village Academy. Suri will be made a zombie even before she even has a chance of being fully potty-trained. Not right!

Katie’s parents must be slipping away more and more from their child’s life, you just can’t help but feel sorry for them. Not only have they lost their daughter, but now their precious grand-daughter. Hopefully a disconnection is not on the horizon, but as Katie gets more indoctrinated into the cult, it seems inevitable.

While sympathy goes hand in hand for those with loved one’s in entrenched in Scientology, there are nagging questions about their complicity. One has to wonder how Katie’s parents can continually look the other way as disturbing images of their ill-looking daughter pop up all over the web and in magazines. Reports state Katie has been following a dangerous Scientology diet called the ‘purification rundown” which consists of high doses of vitamins and sauna treatments. How could her parents not step in to help? This is a sign that something is really wrong here.

And now, the life-long devout Catholics are going to allow their grandchild to attend a Scientology and say nothing?

No one really knows how much time they are given to visit with Suri. Considering the very rare sightings of Katie with her family, my guess is not too often. In fact, we haven’t seen Katie’s parents since her and Tom’s wedding over two years ago. *sigh*

So back to that Scientology school….

I was wondering how early Scientology starts kids out on their e-meter? Which is Scientology’s electropsychometer, which in non-cult speak is a rudimentary lie detector which picks up slight changes in skin temperature while a subject is being asked a series of personal (sometimes VERY personal) questions.

Scientology states the e-meter is used to audit out past traumas. But in actuality, it is used to control members by keeping records of what is said during their “auditing” sessions on file, in case they decide to leave and speak out against Scientology. (They have PLENTY of juicy tidbits on Travolta, wink wink..)

Using the e-meter is known to release endorphins due to it’s mild electric current. Endorphins are chemically very much like morphine. This is why it keeps people coming back for more, but like a drug, it’s rush is one of ever diminishing returns, leaving the subject feeling let down over time. Ask any ex-Scientologist how they felt about their time in the cult and most will say, “it was great at first, but it never delivered on any of it’s promises. Sadly, that can be a lesson learned many, many of thousands of dollars later.

In doing research on children in Scientology, I discovered kids can start auditing as early as four years old.

Hmm…I am not sure what past or current traumas a 4 year old can have, besides of course, spilled milk or they got crayon on the wall? But that’s not the point is it? The point is to indoctrinate the children early, so auditing becomes second nature.

In the book, The Scandal Of Scientology, written by Paulette Cooper, she states:

Hubbard wrote that “serious processing” should not be done before a child was five years old, “extensive Processing” except in very unusual circumstances, should not be done before he was eight, and that no child should be “forced” into the prenatal area until he was twelve.

If the child is even faintly unwilling to be audited, you can coax the child into short sessions, and then, as time goes on, lengthen them gradually. Hubbard, who has seven children, plus seven grandchildren, naturally has devised an auditing technique for kids. Children are given such simple processing as “Feel my arm. Thank you. Feel your arm. Thank you.” They are also sent back to relive their birth, and it is apparently as painful an experience for them as it is for some of the adult pre-clears, since Hubbard wrote:

If the auditor should make a slip, like telling the child that birth won’t hurt him much when he returns to it, the child will be expecting a mild or nothing at all … an auditor hasn’t known frustration until he has run a child halfway through a painful experience only to find that a happy ending has been tacked onto it.

Hubbard recommends Scientologists put teachers and students on e-meters, and give “daily mental activities” — which is what they do in Scientology.

The last is to create an environment of fear because these vicious people know everything about you, and can use it in whatever psychotic, dysfunctional, socio-pathic way they want. Especially in children, this creates the appearance of an all knowing organization that has the money and resources to keep you under lock and key forever, without ever needing a physical lock and key.

Even school is done by Scientology, public school is out. You do not get even an 8th grade education, and you learn definitions of words that are completely wrong according to the Oxford English Dictionary… redefining the meaning of words in order to further support their mind control.

Oh that is nice. That’s what every parent should look for in a school.

Monica Pignotti, Cult Intervention Specialist and former Scientologist, wrote a paper to show how mind control is used in Scientology.

She wrote about the cognitive dissonance theory, behavior control, emotional control, thought control and information control.

“The major premise of the Scientology study techniques is that there is no legitimate reason to disagree with anything written by L. Ron Hubbard. If a person on a course has a disagreement, they are immediately referred back to the materials to find what word they have “misunderstood”. Anyone who no longer wishes to continue on a course is also said to have misunderstood words that must be found and “cleared”. Thus, there is no legitimate reason, according to Scientologists to disagree or to want to leave and anyone who does is forced to internalize the blame within themselves. [Wow, that's got to do wonders for a child's self esteem.]

No verbal discussions of the course materials among students or with the supervisor is allowed. If the student has a question, all the supervisor is allowed to do is to say “What do your materials state” and to find “misunderstood words”. This gives the students no opportunity to get any feedback whether other students are experiencing the same doubts they might be experiencing themselves. The whole course environment is very tightly controlled.”

That was just a small snippet from her article which shows over time how critical thinking can vanish from a student. It’s an excellent read, and frightening on many levels.

I am sure the only ones who will know EXACTLY what is being taught at the New Village Academy, are the Scientologists on staff. The clueless parents who signed up for this “school” are doing so unaware of the long-term damage they will have inflicted on their child’s burgeoning academic future.

Do they think just because it is run by celebritities this automatically makes it great? I think a quick run-through mainstream celebrity news will prove celebs are the last group to follow in terms of smart decisions.

More importantly, why hasn’t the government stepped in to check on the teaching methods used in this and similar Scientology schools to determine whether the techniques constitute brainwashing? It is the government’s job to standardize educational requirements and protect children. Perhaps they too were also blinded by the shining glimmers of fame.

The fact the NVA continues to exist, isn’t for a lack of unanswered question on the part of government authorities, just a lack of action.

Back in May, Fox News reported, “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.” [Wait.... what? The teaching does not raise a red flag with him?]

Reynolds also said: “How can parents make informed choices if they have to struggle to ascertain what the purpose and philosophy of the school is” and “why the New Village Academy wasn’t more upfront about the school’s Scientology connection.” “Numerous e-mails and phone calls for comment on the school’s faculty by Smith’s representatives and NVA were not returned.”

I fail to understand why you would hide what you are. I also fail to undertand why they have such a dumbass as an executive director of California’s Association of Private Schools!

Alarmingly, as I recently reported, the Smiths have plans to build a companion high school. Great.

We wouldn’t want Suri left high and dry once she “graduates” from the New Village Academy. Cruise wouldn’t think of putting her in Delphi (another Scientology school) with other “regular” Scientology kids. Pishaw!

Besides, Cruise has to support his buddy Will and support Will he will! The cost for Suri’s enrollment at NVA will be $12,000 a year.

Now don’t worry, it’s tax deductible. Yes, it’s true, if you are a Scientologist, you can deduct your child’s school costs off your taxes! What’s even more amazing (or enraging) is Scientology is the ONLY “religion” allowed to do this! Why? You’ll have to ask the IRS!

Which is exactly what the Sklar family did. The Sklars are a Jewish couple who recently asked the courts that same question. They too wanted the right to deduct their child’s religious clases off their taxes, just like Scientology parents are able to do. But guess what? The IRS said no, and now they are entangled in a strange and drawn out legal battle with the IRS over this outrageous partnership between the IRS and the Church of Scientology.

To be fair, I don’t believe ANY religious schooling should be tax deductible, especially in this day and age, but if the IRS is going to be exclusive and award Scientology that perk, it should be across the board and made available for other religions.

Suri AND Katie’s chance of being free has now narrowed substantially. Based on thousands of Scientology cases, Katie’s disconnection from her family seems to be looming right around the corner.

So what will Katie do now that Suri will be busy getting audited, engaged in word-clearing and learning about galactic overlord aliens threatening her very existence?

According to the Daily Mail, getting knocked up with Suri #2 or as Tom seems to think, Photo Op #2:

“Katie is currently filming The Extra Man in New York but will return to Los Angeles in May to try for her second child.”

Was Suri like a puppy? Cute when she was small… but now that she is older…eh….time to produce another media distraction?

After all, who even sees Connor and Isabella, (Tom’s two adopted children with 2nd Nicole Kidman) any more? Connor who? Isabella huh?

Guess it’t time to knock boots and fire up the ol’ Scientology PR machine again. ‘Cuz if the thetans are rockin’ don’t come knockin’!

(posted by Queen, edited by D)

Update: Supposedly TomKat’s team have denied this rumor, stating the New Village Academy is for ages 4 and up and Suri will be only be 3 in a few days, therefore she is not eligible. Whatever, when have rules ever applied to Tom Cruise? He’s Maverick, he can what he wants. So, while there maybe a delay in Suri’s Scientology education, the information in this article about Scientology schools, Hubbard’s teaching tech and how children are treated in the cult remain true.

Source: D