The culture here is much different from university. It's about what I had expected. 100% white females age 18-23 who barely scraped through high school and a token gay guy in a different class. I had hoped that both the gay and black population would be much higher. At 25, I am the oldest student in Basics and the only person to have attended any college. Most either have kids or had kids before they were removed by the state. The rest can't wait to get married and have kids. About half smoke. I am used to working entirely with females (all 6 staff members at the screen printing company are women age 21-26 and one who is late 40's), but beauty school attracts a different type of female.
Various forms of theft have proven to be a major issue here. Students steal from each other on a regular basis. My purse never leaves my body. I'd leave it in the car, but there have been vehicle break-ins in the past in which purses were stolen.
Probably the worst part is that domestic abuse is normal to many of these girls, in a way that animal death is normal to most people raised on farms. There is a level of comfort when it comes to being verbally or physically abused that is alarming to me. They laugh through stories about being beaten or their husbands taking on other women because they need to lose 60 lbs before their husband will claim them as their wife again even though they live together with their children. First, that whole situation is just terrible in every way. Second, I'm not sure a 5'5" tall 160lb girl needs to lose 60 lbs. She is a beautiful girl.
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