VANDALIA — More than 200 students who paid upwards of $20,000 to go to cosmetology school are waking up this morning unsure if it was all for nothing.
The president and CEO of Creative Images Institute of Cosmetology said he does not have the money to keep the school open.
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Students said this came without warning.
Some were nearing graduation while one woman said she had been accepted into the program last week.
She learned the school was closing through a text message.
“Well, going through the day, it’s absolutely horrible, Charles Gross, President and CEO of Creative Images Institute of Cosmetology.
Students expressed that they are devastated.
Tuesday started as a normal day until they all found out they don’t have a cosmetology school anymore.
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