Former Students Sue Barber College ; Lawsuits Claim They Had to Clean Toilets, Sell Products

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Students who paid $16,300 to a Glen Burnie 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.

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 school's various programs on barbering, nail technology and skin care therapy would eventually make them as much money as "doctors and lawyers."

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Former Students Sue Barber College ; Lawsuits Claim They Had to Clean Toilets, Sell Products

In reality, they claim, the administrators wanted to "collect the federal and other funds and then rid themselves of the stu...

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