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Cosmetology Classes Round Out High-Schoolers’ Day

Published: May 14, 2008
by Rosanne Ullman

While visiting Empire Education Group’s beauty school in Arlington Heights, Illinois, I asked to see a classroom. The spacious room held a series of long tables arranged in two rows. On the floor at the front of the room sat a line-up of

mannequin heads side by side. More heads were on the tables, where the cosmetology school students worked on them and practiced doing cuts, color, perms and styling.

Using the room at this particular time was a group of high school kids whose curriculum included spending part of their day in cosmetology school. The first thing I asked them was which aspect of school they enjoyed more, the time they spent in their high school classrooms or the time they spent in their Empire school classrooms. They didn’t hesitate for a second!

They all agreed that beauty school was a lot of fun.

But that didn’t mean that they were slackers at high school. When I joked that hair class sure beat biology class, one girl didn’t quite agree. She was planning to enroll in college and pursue a nursing degree after she finished up at Empire. A guy who identified himself as an artist explained that he was exploring his talents in various arts, including hair design but also perhaps photography and graphic design. Since cosmetology school typically takes less than a year, it can easily complement other programs of higher learning. It was cool that these kids were excited about their future.