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Barbers in New Jersey are Dinasours.  For the last 24 yrs. there has not been a Barber or Barber Shop License issued in NJ.

The reason is the State combined the Barber Board and the Beauty Board and created the Cosmetology Hairstyling Board.  The schools were supposed to train sudents in both disciplines.  What a joke.   The use of the straight edge Barber Razor is no longer in use.  You can't get a real professional shave by qualified Barbers who are under the age of 30.  Never taught.

There has been a conserted effort to re-establish a Barber course in Cosmetology Schools since 27 Nov. 2010, when the Gov. signed the revision to the Cosmetology Bill to incorporate a Barbers course.

Now is the time to reaach out to the Cosmetology Board and push for Apprentice Licenses to be available to Barber Shops in NJ.

We also need to get the law to require Barber Shops to have a Barber Pole outside the Shop. 

We need to have any one of us who know how to instruct the use of a Razor to be a teacher on Barbering in NJ, and work at the schools to train the students.

This requires a group effort to reach the ears of the Board Members.

If this is important to you, let's get together and speak out.

Maybe there ought to be a Barber School License available to get the job done right!

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The Barber Profession:

It's Problems, Reasons and Possible Solutions:

Lack of Interest by Youth

The Barber profession has done nothing to promote the Barber Image to the young.

Other various trades and professions are promoted in the media as being desirous.  Various schools, looking for prospective students, usually sponsor these promos; an area our profession lacks due to the absence of schools. 

Career Days, sponsored by local High Schools, overlooks the Barber Profession, because Counselors generally preach "College" over Trade Schools.

Fathers have lost the opportunity for the "male bonding" to be had by bringing his son with him to his local Barber Shop.  Instead they leave the job to the mother who goes to the Beauty Salon. 

Lack of Proper Schooling

We need Barber Schools.  We need Barbers who can train students to respect and use razors, hones and strops.  The ones who are left are up in years.  We need them to start training a new group of Barber Teachers to carry on the Profession.

Barber Schools could also add a few dollars into tuition to promote the profession.

Lack of Proper Training

Without Schools, run by accredited Barber Teachers, the aspiring Barber is forced to go to Cosmetology School, run by Cosmetologists, not Barbers.  This student has to learn all the written theory and sanitation rules.  This could be ascertained by having State oversight and advice, and a period of time in Cosmetology School to evaluate the student prior to examination.

Lack of Proper Testing

The Barber student should be tested by Professional Barbers and Barber Teachers, who know the proper use and safety measures needed to handle s straight edge razor. 

There is a difference in the atmosphere of a Salon and a Shop.   People know the difference, and many of them miss the comfort of a well run, clean and neighborly Barber Shop.

 

If the Barbers of New Jersey would join me in organizing a plan to bring this to the attention of the governing powers and the media we could give the youth of today a chance to be productive and of good service to the community, while providing a good living in a clean environment. 

 

 

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Great thread, I started this petition because im a barber in NJ but also lived in NY and know how hard and expensive it is to get a Barber Lisc. in NJ.http://www.change.org/petitions/allow-barber-schools-in-nj

 

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Follow the money!

There are 34 Cosmetology Hairstyling Schools in New Jersey.

25 of them are under the flag of Empire.

Empire is owned by Salley Beauty Supply

Sally Bearty Supply is a subsiderary of Alberto-Culver

They want all the money.

You can't have an apprentice in a Shop in New Jersey

When you go to the Cosmetology Hairstyling Board Meetings in Newark you have to deal with the Education Association Represenative on the Board who is apposed to any Apprenticships.

I have been petitioning the board for years. 

Finally they approved to have a Barber Cource in the Cosmetology Hairstyling Schools, where s Barber student will have to complete 900 hours schooling.

The students are set up in two groups; those who have less than 450 hours (Junior Students), and those who have more the 450 hrs. (Senior Students.

Senior Students are allowed to work in shops when they are not in school.

That was the best comprimise we could get. 

This is going to create a lot of kitchen shops throughout the State.

The State Licenses Boards were to see that the public received Sanitary, Safe conditions, and also to raise money for the State.

They should not prevent anyone from making a living doing what they love.

This is government interfering with prosperity.  STOP THEM!

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