I am currently about a year in to my body piercing apprenticeship. I absolutely feel like I could not learn the amount that I am learning if I was limited to being in a classroom. Being in the shop under my mentor gives me the opportunity to have one on one teaching. If I was in a classroom with approximately 20 other students I would be limited on what I could learn. Being out of a shop enviorment is going to prolong my apprenticeship because I will not be getting in shop experience. Tattoo schools are a terrible idea, the industry is old and its traditions are sacred. It should all be left the way that it is.