This was bound to happen.
The daily media frenzy following Maddox Jolie-Pitt’s arrival and departure from school at the Lycee Francais in New York City has simply gotten out of control.
Dan Cooke, Lycee’s director of operations, blasted off a missive to the parents of all the students, reproaching them for their Brangelina obsession.
“I’m sure you are aware the school has received much media attention recently during the arrival and dismissal times because of the presence of celebrities Ms. Angelina Jolie and/or Mr. Brad Pitt. I want to make you aware that before the first day of school I met with their security team to discuss the best manner in which for them to drop off and pick up their son. Our foremost goal was to cause the least amount of disruption to the school and to ensure the security of all of our students and families.
Regretfully, I have seen some parents taking pictures, asking for autographs, talking to the media and even shouting at Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt for recognition. Therefore, in the best interests of the school and safety of your child(ren) I must ask for everyone to please respect the family’s privacy and discontinue these practices.â€
Tell me that some uncouth did not have the temerity to shout at his highness for recognition.
Oh, the horror!
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Those kids of theirs are going to be so fucked when they get older - they have NO sense of reality or what it’s like to be normal. With all of that attention on them constantly, how can they ever be really normal?
I had no attention forced on me and I didn’t turn out really normal.
If I was a tuition-paying parent at that school, I would remove my child out immediately. Jolie/Pitt and Cooke have a lot of balls to ask people not to do something. It’s a free country, folks! Deal with it or send your holier-than-thou kid to a school in the mid-west where paparazzi don’t exist.
My son actually does go to a private school and I would be livid if I received a notice like that regarding another family. It’s THAT family’s presence that is disruptive, not MY family’s presence! Give me a friggin’ break.
I agree Jen.
whats with all the fancy words like uncouth and temerity? c’mon man, i read fadedyouth because i want to know which celebrities to hate and i want to learn how to look emaciated, not because i want to learn REAL things like words and stuff….
Therefore, in the best interests of the school and safety of your child(ren)
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Read the above, Brad/Angie are not the one complaining.
It seems strange that people who have enough $$ to be able to send their kids to this school would give a shit about seeing them. I have this impression of the super rich New Yorker not lowering themself to stand on the street and fawn all over another person. (I will probably get ripped apart for that generalization). I always thought the people that were standing along the street outside the door were just people who were walking by or knew that they drop their kid off there. Why do they really care if people are there because it is not like they even acknowledge them… They just jump in their chauffeured ride and speed off. No harm done, right?
sup-no um, no offense.. i get what you’re saying, but do u suggest the kids would have been better off raised in a third world orphanage? No medical care, no education, small chance of surviving to be old enough to even leave said orphanage… that said, it sucks that grown ass adults can’t control themselves for the sake of their children.. I would be an embarrassed kid if my mother was hollering after an actor or actress dropping their kid off at my uber expensive school.. these parents should have a little more class, no? then again, as hollywood has taught us, money can’t buy you common sense.
or class
I understand that they are telling the parents to chill a bit and thats fair enough I think like my2cents said, the teachers didn’t think the parents would be adding to all the commotion and drama and would just get on with their own lives. The Jolie Pitts or whatever didn’t ask for that. I would just be more worried about the kids whose parents are trying to get Brad to sign their boobs….SHAME.
^^LOL.. sign their boobs… ha that’s funny.. picturing that right now.. EMBARRASSING!
As much as they move around they seriously need to look into homeschooling their kids. They move so much they are always the “new shiny item.” Given time classmates & parents would get used to them but they never stay put anywhere long enough for that to happen.
Maddox has certainly been at that location long enough for the novelty to have worn off. I read somewhere else that the first few days that Maddox attended the school, it was actually some other parents at the school who tipped off the media.
No only 1, yeah, I’d rather they die of starvation and be eaten by horse flies than live a luxury with hollywood royalty. But seriously, how does my one statement about them being abnormal (which is a given considering where they are and who they’re parents are) translate into me prefering they were dying of starving (please stop reading so much into statements). Having said that, I’m nowhere NEAR “normal” so don’t misunderstand how I use that word - normal is… relative (their lives are anything but normal compared to most). But when you look at Hollywood kids like Lohan, Shitney and a lot of others, they were raised with an abnormal amount of worship and attention from a young age. Not saying that you can’t still turn out well-adjusted, but it’s clearly something their parents are going to have to work HARD AS HELL to counter with positive, grounding reinforcement if they don’t want to have a typical, spoiled hollywood media/drug whore/brat on their hands.
Maybe the parents are creating the rukkus because they want them gone? Who’d want their lives infected with the Brangelina freakshow?
I understand what you mean Supernova! If everyday when my kids walked out the front door people were cheering for them and taking pics I would have some fools on my hands. A weekend at Grandma’s makes my kids devils so I can’t imagine how they keep their kids sane.
^LoL!! Seriously! Especially considering that Brad and Angie are barely normal themselves (they’re called the most beautiful people in the world on a daily basis! LoL!). At least they seem grounded in being nice people (that’s a start for raising good kids). We shall see.
I agree with Barks about homeschooling. Does Maddox ever get a chance to make any REAL friends? Isn’t this about the tenth school in one year he’s been to? If Brad/Angie are taking turns making movies, why can’t the other one stay at home (where is that? New Orleans? New York? LA? Doesn’t she have some big spread in England?) with the children, their tutors/teachers, and the children’s friends?
How long will he be at this French school? He’ll leave right in the middle of learning about Ben Franklin or whatever. Consistency, it would seem, would be much kinder.
Why should the children have to home school? That would just be the easy way out and I think that Brad and Ange want to give them the best and most normal school experience possible. It’s important for Maddox to be able to make friends and go to school like a normal kid. If they want to send their child to that school then they should be able to! It’s a shame that everyone is making such a fuss about it though, there needs to be a little bit mroe restraint and respect. I’m sure it really pisses Brad off.
God, can’t they leave this kid alone??? Can’t they leave Jolie and Pitt alone?? I don’t understand the constant obsession with this couple. Okay we have seen them, we have seen their kids, do we really need to see every move they make?? Do we care so much that they are arriving here or leaving there??? Do they really deserve all this attention anyway?
Stephi turn off the Yanni and join the real world. Have you ever watched an interview with people who move alot? They internalize everything because they never make a lasting bond with anyone outside their family.
The school Maddox is going to is a Lycee, which follows the French school system. There is a school like that in most major cities around the world and people who move a lot (diplomats, etc.) choose the Lycee because it IS consistent. No matter where you live, you will be learning the same thing at the same time. This is probably the best place for him to be and so what if he moves, so do loads of other kids in the school. They’re all used to people coming and going. I know lots of kids from that system and they’re all well adjusted.