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07/28/10
Students who paid $16,300 to an area cosmetology school to learn how to cut hair were instead required to clean toilets, solicit new customers and peddle the school's styling products, according to two class action lawsuits filed in county Circuit Court. Find Us On Facebook
In all, seven former students are suing the Fila Academy and its owner, Larry Fila Jr. of Linthicum. They claim officials with the academy, which previously purported an association with Paul Mitchell, lied about how the Glen Burnie school's various programs on barbering, nail technology and skin care therapy would eventually make them as much money as "doctors and...
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Real World - 2010-07-29 12:41:49
In the real world, if you expected to clean toilets and meet sales quotas, you get paid.
When you are the one paying the money, you have the right to expect goods or services, in this case training, to be provided.
If the students were not told they would have to meet sales quotas, then the school was misrepresented.
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What! - 2010-07-29 07:58:29
Really, isn't this what you are expected to do in the real world? Contribute and Produce!
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