Honestly this is dumb and makes no sense.
          This is COSMETOLOGY SCHOOL! Mainly HAIR which is literally the purpose. If people want continued education in the other areas we are allowed to work in (ie. skin, nails, and barbering); then, people need to go to school for those areas. That’s the whole point of Esthetician,  Nail Technician, and Barbering School! There are also programs in place for people to get more hours in an actual facility in order to get there license in that are without having to go back to school.

           Reducing the amount of hours in cosmetology WILL NOT help ANYONE in a salon! The reality is no one will want to, nor have time to train people on how to do basic hair. Especially when you have school for it. 1500 hours isn’t even enough time to practice and perfect every area of hair. There are so many different areas and avenues in hair! Anything less than 1500 is a joke! We have to work with various amounts of chemicals: perms, hair color, relaxers; learn so many techniques: curling, straightening, cutting, braiding; learn to strengthen your fingers for each type of technique for each type of hair texture: from straight to coily;  product knowledge, etc etc! The list goes on! You are more liable to have people messing up everyone’s hair, not understanding why, costing salons MORE MONEY to fix, continuously firing inexperienced people; then, having people well educated enough to start in a salon and make promising careers! 

             People aren’t comfortable leaving school at 1500 hours to start and do hair! So, why reduce the hours AND change the curriculum to do less hair!? People come to school to learn other ethnicity’s hair, to learn to do their kids’ hair, to create a future, to learn to show their creativity through hair, etc. Why take that away from them? It’s not fair to the people who truly love the art of hair, and truly want to learn! 

           We need to be able to properly do hair, learn infection control, learn to be safe, to to keep the client safe, and learn to satisfy everyone’s needs! Reducing the amount of hours and changing the COSMETOLOGY curriculum will not help us do so! Like I said, if anyone wants to learn and expand the other areas of cosmetology; then they can do so after or before Cosmetology School. There are steps and plans in order for them to take to successfully do so! Apprentice in a shop, go back to school, practice those areas on Guinea pig clients for half off, etc. Don’t make everyone else suffer because Salon’s are too lazy to thoroughly hire people. That has nothing to do with the people who TRULY want to learn HAIR!

        P.S. Stop moving in such a sneaky way just because you guys are afraid of loosing this battle. It’s dishonorable, distasteful, classless, and down right WRONG! Let it be fair and square! LISTEN to the people the same way we listen to you guys. Hold meetings at an appropriate time for ANY and EVERYONE who wants to attend that truly cares about this career choice, education, and has the license/schooling to do so!