Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt Take Son Maddox To His New School
September 11, 2007 | Filed under Celebrity News, News
It has been reported that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to send their three youngest children to the same preschool.
Angelina and Brad have just enrolled their six-year-old adopted son Maddox, in a private New York school and sat that they also want their two-year-old adopted Ethiopian daughter Zahara, three-year-old adopted Vietnamese son Pax and 16-month-old daughter Shiloh to share their first experience of school together.
A source has said that “Angelina and Brad talked about the kids and how Maddox is very excited to be going to school in New York. Angelina said the three youngest would be going to preschool together this year.”
Maddox began classes at the $18,000-a-year Lycée Francais de New York school last Tuesday his lessons are all said to be taught in French and are based on the French curriculum.
What do you think of these children attended this school and why do you think that they have chosen a school that will teach them in French and not English?
What I can not get my head around is why they did not choose the English curriculum for their children?
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It’s their children, they can decide what they think it’s best for them. It’s none of your business to make judgement about that. What’s the problem of learning a foreign language? Don’t they speak English at home?
Their first language is English, now they can learn French language too because they travel to Europe a lot and perhaps they are planning to settle in Europe. Nothing wrong with that. If I can afford it, I like to reside in Europe. Daniel, you know if you become so comfortable in your little corner, probably you are not a liberal. are you uncomfortable to talk to anyone that doesn’t have same color as you? As a writer, your eyes should be open to see the world and also your mind needs to accept and understand other culture. Life is too short to think that USA is the only one exist in this planet and americans are the only people that should live.
I agree with both zeggy and estrell. I couldn’t have put it better myself. Their children are multi-cultured and they are trying to make them part of the world culture, so that they will be able to travel anywhere. They already know English and by learning several other languages during the time that children learn and soak everything up like sponges, they will be one step ahead of others. It’s too bad that American society, and Daniel, don’t see the benefit of being multilingual.
Are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt aware that the school Maddox is attending was built on a toxic waste site? According to a New York Observer article dated 8/19/02, “Merde! Lycee Buys Toxic Dump,” Lycee Francais de New York was built on top of a toxic waste site containing toluene, tetrachloroethylene and other cancer-causing chemicals? The school agreed to construct a vapor barrier as part of the building’s foundation to help prevent gases from entering the school. The school also agreed to build a groundwater-collection system to treat the contaminated groundwater beneath the site and discharge it into the city’s sewer system.
Jolie and Pitt seem to really care about the health and safety of their children. I hope that this information about the toxic waste site beneath Maddox’s school gets to them somehow.
Janice R. England
People Investigating Toxic Sites
toxicsites@hotmail.com
Well, I am an American and I speak English. If you live in a country where the population speaks a certain language, you should speak the language. Especially if your income depends on the English language, like Angelina and Brad’s does. Please do not be so critical of “American society”. Americans saved the Europeans during World War II, nobody seemed to care what language we spoke when our American Soldiers showed up with the big guns. Being multilingual is a choice not a requirement nor does it make a person better than anyone else. Please.
To Katie,
I am an American and I also speak English fluently! Why the need to criticize someone who wants to be multilingual? I did not say it made someone better, so don’t put words in my mouth. If you want to get technical, Lafayette and France helped America defeat Great Britain in the American Revolution. This country is a melting pot made up of many cultures… It’s amazing how someone always has to get on the offensive about whatever topic is out there…
Does it really matter what language Maddox speaks, isn’t the fact that he’s going to school on a toxic dump a much bigger issue?
Yes,Janice you’re right, it is a much bigger issue for all the kids attending that school.
I agree Christine. All the kids attending this school could be in jeopardy. I posted a message here in an attempt to get this information to Jolie and Pitt. Lycee Francais de New York is just one of the many schools across the country that were built on top of toxic waste. Our organization, People Investigating Toxic Sites, has files of schools on or adjacent to closed dumps where the children are suffering from serious illnesses, including leukemia and cancer.
Christine- Oh, I am sorry, but I understood your comment “It’s too bad that American society can’t see the benefit of being multilingual” to be critical. I am offended. Did you really mean all of American society? Or maybe just the few of us who don’t think like you. You must be very intelligent to have the pulse of America at your disposal. A melting pot! Angelina and Brad are hardly the Gold Standard in my world. They blow in and out like the wind. The French hate Americans. Period.
My best to their children and all the children affected by the toxic school site.
I’m done talking to the narrow-minded who enjoy attacking others when they haven’t got a clue! You must have gone to the Karl Rove school of thinking …slash and trash. People like you blow in like the wind. The French don’t hate Americans. They hate the ugly American who think that they are the only ones that matter!
It is fantastic that they want their children to see the world and be exposed to culture. From experience, I can say that it is very hard as a child not put down roots. I went to 14 different schools before I graduated from highschool. I am now 42 and raising four children with my husband. We will have lived in the same home until they are all grown. I think there is a feeling of family and security in that, something that no amount of money can buy. I just know as a child it is hard to always be “the new kid”…..no matter who your parents are.