Tag: Applied Scholastics

Former teachers and administrators are concerned that at-risk students at the Phoenix-based Career Success charter school district have been exposed to teaching methods tied to the Church of Scientology But upon reviewing the material DeAnna Rowe, executive director of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, says she sees no problem. “Overall it appears to promote the need to respect another’s religious beliefs,” Rowe wrote in an email. The Scientology cult uses various front groups in its attempts to both market its views and gain respectability. One such groups, Applied Scholastics, promotes the use of study techniques created by L.

Concerned parents contacted a television station about one of the groups approved for tutoring by D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) – a group that has connections to the founder of the Church of Scientology.

Applied Scholastics International, a Scientology front group, is one of 29 tutoring services listed in the Title I Supplemental Educational Services Guide.

Some parents are upset with a study method introduced by a Montessori school in northwest Toronto, which they say has its roots in the Church of Scientology.

Marketed by one of the cult’s front groups, the method uses ideas promoted by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.