5/20/08

Will Smith invets nearly $1million for his kids school.

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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