Factoring client services, this place gets two stars. I would never suggest going for a mani/pedi, but the hair services turn out nice, and the skin services are awesome. Plus the students need practice...
As far as a place of education, I would never recommend anyone to attend this school. I heard many positive things about this school before attending for cosmetology, and I can say none of them are true.
The staff is immature and cares more about befriending students and playing favorites than actually educating. They hire instructors right out of school, and we are being taught by teachers with only a few more months education than we have. They gossip about students in earshot of others and show no professionalism whatsoever. Stateboard laws are consistently broken.
After freshman level, the students receive little hands on education, and are left to work on mannequins 6 hours a day for the remaining 8 months of the program, unless they are lucky enough to receive a client.
Some students will receive 3-4 clients/ day while others only get one/week. The system is entirely unfair and only a few favorites benefit from this.
The school supervisor is aware of these problems, yet chooses not to do anything to better the school. Two favorites were drinking on the clinic floor, were stumbling, slurring, and the school supervisor did nothing about it. In fact, they were both allowed to have clients after finding out about this. Had this been anyone else, they would have been immediately sent home for the day, if not punished more severely.
The owner, Mr. Lehman must be completely unaware of where his school is headed, because Jean Madeline's reputation is sinking fast.
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