Cosmetics

I live in Greenville, SC and I want to take up cosmetology not as a job but as an career.

Greenville Tech has a reputation as a good school that is growing into very fast and is relatively inexpensive. I have talked to local beauticans and asked who gives a better education, Greenville Tech or a big hair school? They all told me "Girl go to Tech, it’s only ,000!". The school I want to attend that is also in the area (Kenneth Shuler) tution is ,000. Both programs educate you to past the state cosmetology license exams in about 10 months.

The other thing is, I used to get my hair done at Greenville Tech a couple of years ago. The girl who did my hair did not know how to do a relaxer. It took like 6 people crowded over me to teach her how to "lift" my hair so I could get red color (which came out yellow,brown and orange). She didn’t know how to style or cut very well. Luckly there was a woman who had been doing hair her whole life but was never certified in the class. She had her own salon and knew what she was doing and finished my hair right. She knew more than the teacher did! When I asked for her contact info for the next appointment the teacher told me "Oh, they are about to leave" and I asked what she meant and she told me that they were done with the program! My mom and my grandmom went there other times and had the same experience. Only about 2/10 girls there knew squat! And they were supposedly done with the program!
One day this year, Tech came to my school at lunch and where supposed to do demonstrations and give out information for future comsetology students. I went in and it was VERY unprofessional. The people representing the school were all just sitting around talking loudly. They were playing around and acting ghetto. I thought it hasn’t yet started so I sat down for basicly my whole lunch period until the bell rang thinking like "wow, i guess this is it". They rudely handed out a couple papers and everyone left. No demonstration. No anything. That really made me not want to attend Tech.

When I visted Kenneth Shuler, it was very clean, professional, and everything was new and high tech. When we went on the tour of the classrooms and everything the students were focused, and polite. Everyone was VERY professional. The woman for admissions assured me their program wasn’t just to get you to past the exam but to educate you for an sucessful cosmetology career with the business classes included in the program.

Which do you think is better?