| Aveda Institute |
| Aveda Institute unfairly terminated me and charged me 100% tuition Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 18th of Mar, 2011 by User995460 |
I enrolled at Aveda Institute eager to learn and gain the skills I needed to be a great hairstylist! The first five weeks of school my class colored on big sheets of white poster paper with crayola markers. The class size was so big that there was not enough room to comfortable and one instructor for over 30 students. I was told that my class would be no more than 10 to 15 students. This was the first big noticable lie Aveda told me. After five weeks of coloring my class went to the second five weeks with another instructor. The room was so smaller than the first room, not to mention Aveda made some students share a half sized locker with another student. This is what I was paying over $18,000.00 for! After ten weeks of poor instruction and lack of training, my class was put onto the clinic floor. I practiced on my mannequin and followed the instructions from the book in order to figure out how to cut hair. Not missing a single day of class the first ten weeks, I was not prepared to be on the clinic floor. As several weeks went by, I was never given live model services, as I noticed that certain students were given four to six live model services a day. I went to all the Aveda staff that worked at the insititute, and asked them to give me services. I was denied services for training continuously. I had a 93 gpa, good attendance, no written writeups, an overall good student. Why was I being skipped over? On a Friday, I was becoming sick with a bad cold after lunch. I was assigned a live model around 3:30 pm. Feeling very sick from my bad cold, I was afraid to turn down the service, since I rarely got them. Aveda also has a rule that after a student clocks in for an hour, the student can't leave no matter what, and students were told if they turned down a service, they would be written up or sent home. I started the service but continued to sneeze, cough and blow my nose. Another student offered to take over the service to help me out. I gladly let her and went to the ladies room. As I returned to the clinic floor after blowing my nose and stopped coughing, I decided to ask to go home. I was confronted by two instructors as if they were going to jump me. The instructors continued to brow beat me and accused me of being rude to the customer, walking off mad, and throwing my stuff onto the floor. I was very nice to the customer and did not throw anything onto the floor, and walked off with sneezing and coughing. They would not let me say much at all! As I was being treated like a guantanamo bay prisonor, I asked the instructors if I could go home, as I was feeling weak from my cold. They continued to browbeat me, so I stood up in tears and turned away from them, reached for the door and tossed my bruch into the air. With my face covered in tears, I walked outside and sat at the picnic table as one of the directors of the school came by, I asked him if he had time to listen to what had just happened. He understood my frustrations, from not having live model servcies and everything else that sucks about Aveda. Within two minutes of talking to him, I was surrounded by six Aveda staff memebers. I couldn't believe that I was being intimidated by the staff over something that I didn't do in the first place. I was told to take the week off and start classes the next week. I took the week off to recuperate from the trauma. The AVeda human resource director called me the day before I was to return to school, to tell me to arrived one hour early the next day. I arrived early the next day, and was called into the director of the school's director and two other Aveda staff members. They continued to intimidate me and ask me questions about my ex boyfriends. I refused to answer my personal business. I was told that I was not a good fit for the school and was terminated. I broke into tears and asked for a second chance to complete my training. The director of the school wento on to tellme that I was a great student and would have no trouble transferring to another cosmetology school. I left the school in tears! I drove over one hour to another cosmetology school the same day I was terminated from Aveda. The new school could not accept my hours earned at AVeda because I was 51% completed hours and very little live model services completed. It would be impossibel to complete my services with less than half the hours left that I had. I would have to start over. I was willing to start over, but when I called the financial aid department, Aveda had already taken over $8,000.00 of my government student loans and over $4,500.00 of my pell grant money. Plus, Aveda billed me an additional $6,500.00 because the financial aid does not cover hours that I won't even be at the school. I did not have enough money left to pay for another school. I was screwed! I called Aveda to try to get back into the school, but my emails and phone messages went ignored. I got an attorney and AVeda offered to drop the $6,500.00 that they billed me for the remaining hours that I was not even at the school anymore. I refused to settle for partial return of tuition. Aveda never trained me properly and my hours are no good! I am asking for full tuition due to the wrongful termination. I was told that a class action lawsuit would be my best bet at a successful lawsuit against AVeda. All I need is a few students, previous employees etc... that AVeda wronged.
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Girl,
I have a dreadfull story of my own w Aveda. But I'm not savvy with the computer, and in your blog theres no contact info, understandibly. I'm ex coast guard, and used the GI bill for my tuition. I was/am qualified for the post 911 GI bill which is twice as much as the old $47, 000 bill, plus housing allowence. So, unlike others, I didnt have to use student loans. Well, because I was attending a non degree institution, I was filed under the "old GI bill", and couldn't recieve my housing allowence. I was OK with it, even with my Olive Garden job, I was doin 14hr days 5 days a week, to barily make bills, I had to ask my husband to cover some for me. Then, a month and a half into training, My father died. I had to go and take care of that situation, which I wont go into all of it now, but I knew I couldn't go on the way I had been.
I tried to leave school, they said it'd be 45% of tuition. I had completed 163 hrs of 750. 163 of 750 does not =45%. Not to mention ex military, or ex coast guard in new orleans, with a recently deceased father. I'm not paying them a cent over what I was actually in training for. They let me go 6 months w/o any kind of invoice at all. Then 6 months later, I get a letter that I will be sent to collections. I say "over what"? I put 4 yrs in service for my college money, and youre charging me for training I did not recieve. Since it had been so long for them to not contact me on "my supposed balance", I did a dumb thing and threw my contract away. I talked to corprate, they said to write them a letter. Well, my husband is still in the military, so I have access to free legal advice, [again, unlike the usual person], when I asked for my contract with Aveda, they said they cant give documents with an outstanding balance. THATS ILLEGAL! Whats also Illegal is threatinging collections without sending an invoice, or a phone call. So, I've written the letter to corrporate. But I'm requesting my contract, and if there's no "fine print", that shit is NULL AND VOID. I'm going to have my legal staff look everything over. But, if your blog is current, I WILL PLEDGE FOR YOU. I feel that my case in particular will speak to any jury they can even come up with. My name is Christine Beach, My phone number is 650-303-2019, And I'm not scared of saying it. please call me. |
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I attended Aveda as well, although my story is a little bit different. I completed the entire program, and two days before graduation I was pulled into the office and told that I "was not up to Aveda standards" and that they would not be granting me my diploma. I had already paid the entire tuition, done all the tests and passed my final exam. Now, I did lack on my school work through out the course but anything that was not the best marks was given make up assignments for as to keep me in the course. Never was I asked to leave the course. After the meeting I attended the rest of the days I needed to finish my hours (I was about 4 days behind, and they let me show up everyday to complete those hours) and was left with nothing. As of now I am looking for further steps as I am out THOUSANDS of dollars and a CAREER. I can be contacted at [email protected] if any help information is needed. I have a feeling this happens far more then we are aware of. It's all bad politics.
Thank you.
Courtney |
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