Jean Madeline Aveda Institute

06/01/11

Jean Madeline Looks Good on Paper...

by nonojm at Citysearch

Factoring client services, this place gets two stars. I would never suggest going for a mani/pedi, but the hair services turn out nice, and the skin services are awesome. Plus the students need practice...

As far as a place of education, I would never recommend anyone to attend this school. I heard many positive things about this school before attending for cosmetology, and I can say none of them are true.

The staff is immature and cares more about befriending students and playing favorites than actually educating. They hire instructors right out of school, and we are being taught by teachers with only a few more months education than we have. They gossip about students in earshot of others and show no professionalism whatsoever. Stateboard laws are consistently broken.

After freshman level, the students receive little hands on education, and are left to work on mannequins 6 hours a day for the remaining 8 months of the program, unless they are lucky enough to receive a client.

Some students will receive 3-4 clients/ day while others only get one/week. The system is entirely unfair and only a few favorites benefit from this.

The school supervisor is aware of these problems, yet chooses not to do anything to better the school. Two favorites were drinking on the clinic floor, were stumbling, slurring, and the school supervisor did nothing about it. In fact, they were both allowed to have clients after finding out about this. Had this been anyone else, they would have been immediately sent home for the day, if not punished more severely.

The owner, Mr. Lehman must be completely unaware of where his school is headed, because Jean Madeline's reputation is sinking fast.

05/29/11

Drunk student!!!!!!

by Treehugger542 at Citysearch

As a student, I believe everyone should be treated equally by the teachers. Well, at Jean Madeline this isn't what happens. This weekend, there were two fellow students who were clearly intoxicated. They were slurring their words, stumbling, and openly speaking about drinking alcohol on the salon floor. A few students brought this to the teachers attention, and they did absolutely nothing. They actually gave the one student a client as soon as they found out! The director of education put it off as a joke. I was appalled and would not recommend anyone to waste over 20,000 on a school that plays favorites, and really doesn't care about anything except gossiping all day.

05/28/11

Shocked at this school

by ishallgrow at Citysearch

As student here, I had felt like this was a great school to attend, everyone (for the most part) was friendly and teachers were always willing to help.

Little by little I noted favortism, I wasn't a favorite, but I wasn't an unfavorite either. I never witnessed it that bad until today. A fellow classmate (so you might wanna watch who you're going to or you could get a drunk haircut), was DRINKING ALCOHOL, on the clinic floor, WHILE SHE WAS DOING A CLIENT.

I have seen them send people home for wearing the wrong uniform, for being accused of being 'hung over' or 'high on drugs' by the simple accusations (no proof) but just the judgement of the teachers.

Today this classmate should not have gotten away with this under any circumstance. I'm literally appauled that she did. The student handbook clearly states that you will be permenantly dimissed for this kind of behavior. The student was clearly intoxicated, and when asked up to the supervisors office the supervisor looked at her and deemed her 'clearly fine' OF COURSE, she was scared sh*tless! She wasn't going to act intoxicated, on the floor there was only one teacher (for over 25 students) so there was no way she would have noticed the clear signs (INCLUDING THE CLASSMATE CLEARLY MENTIONING THAT SHE HAD PUT ALCOHOL IN HER DRINK) this behavior just send me over the edge.

Also, when she had found out that someone had told, I overheard her as she threatened to 'stab' another student.

Do not come to this aveda institute Bainbridge...it's unfair, and literally their reputation is going down the tubes. I'm really just completely shocked, and I really really hate to have to write this because I love it so much, but this is just going too far. the school is completely ludacris, please, go to empire, paul mithchell, venus, but not here, not if you want to be treated fairly, and want your feelings and opinions to matter. All that matters about you here is the check you give them every month.

09/24/10

DONT GO TO THIS SCHOOL

by leshe at Citysearch

This owners of this school are incapable of delivering anything but greed and disorganization. They are in the process of handing the business down to the kids. BIG MISTAKE. The kids have their heads in the sand and are busy blaming everyone but themselves for disorganization and neglect. In my time working there I didnt find one person had anything nice to say about them. The atmosphere for students is punitive and degrading. Students are threatened with having to pay more for everything. Dont waste your money - go somewhere else.

08/03/09

Stay away

by awwwman at Citysearch

The way this school is managed is very disorganized and in my opinion it's corrupt. The administration has totally pulled the wool over the school's owner Mr. Lehman. He has surrounded himself with a bunch of uppity old women who send smoke up his a$$. It's about time the parents of the students who attend this school or who are planning on attending this school - sit up and take note. It will be a waste of your money because your son or daughter will be ignored in class if the school doesn't feel they are the right fit for one of Lehman's salons. There are so many other cosmetology schools within the area. Don't waste your money here.

• Pros: close to center city
• Cons: waste of money